[GRASS-user] Unable to locate Curses Includes

[Margherita Di Leo]

Dear Rebecca,

On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 3:30 PM, Rebecca Bennett <rabennett at ymail.com>wrote:

> Dear Grass Users,
>
> Trying to compile 6.4.3 from source on Ubuntu 12.04 in order to get at the
> add-ons which are not working in my prepackaged install.
>

Which add-on is not working?

>
> Following these instructions (
> http://grass.osgeo.org/wiki/Compile_and_Install_Ubuntu) I check out the
> release_20121024_grass_6_4_3RC1 get as far as
>
> ./configure \
>
> but get the following error:
> checking for long long int... yes
> checking for W11... no
> checking for X... no
> checking whether to use Curses... yes
> checking for curses.h... no
> configure: error: *** Unable to locate curses includes.
>
> Any suggestions / ideas welcome!
>
>
I think you miss libncurses5-dev.
In general, when you get an error like this, you can do the search yourself
here: http://packages.ubuntu.com/
You have to search "contents of packages" and specify your
version/distribution.

Hope this helps,

madi

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Margherita DI LEO
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European Commission - DG JRC
Forest Resources and Climate
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