configure: error: "curses not found"

[c9]

configure: error: "curses not found"

[ajaygh]

simply install ncurses-dev on ubuntu by sudo apt-get install ncurses-dev

[ordinaryparksee]

I solved by installing glibc-static

[ygeo]

 # if you are on GentOs or RH
 sudo yum install ncurses-devel

[MyKings]

$ sudo yum install glibc-static ncurses-devel

[jppgks]

Or, build ncurses from source when you don't have root access (using --prefix to specify an install directory other than /usr/local/bin)

1. Install ncurses

# Download & extract source (anywhere)
wget https://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/ncurses/ncurses-6.1.tar.gz
tar -xvf ncurses-6.1.tar.gz
cd ncurses-6.1
# Install
./configure --prefix=$WORKSPACE
make
make install

2. Set CFLAGS to include ncurses directory when building another program.

./configure --prefix=$WORKSPACE \
  CFLAGS="-I$WORKSPACE/include -I$WORKSPACE/include/ncurses" \
  LDFLAGS="-L$WORKSPACE/lib"

[joshuatam]

Just tried to install, seems I have to install glibc-static too

[javruben]

This is not a known issue.
This issue would be best placed in this repo: https://github.com/c9/install/issues

Curses is used to compile tmux. If tmux is installed via a package it is not compiled. May I suggest to install tmux via rpm to prevent this error?

[javruben]

This is now fixed. See c9/install#24 (comment)

[redrockzee]

This is not fixed or is broken again. It fails for me on Oracle Linux.

[wwz1@dovaolv01d c9sdk]$ uname -a
Linux dovaolv01d 3.8.13-118.3.1.el6uek.x86_64 #2 SMP Fri Jan 29 16:54:21 PST 2016 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

[mengdodo]

楼上的完美解决了我的问题，thanks，我的环境是centos6.5

[xluohome]

yum install glibc-static

[leipzig]

sudo yum install tmux.x86_64 on rhel7

[pjbrunet]

CentOS 6 here, thanks @MyKings that's what I needed.

[sammysosa12]

have anyone tried this on kali linux im having a hard time getting ncurses on there . has anyone have this problem?