Re: Problem compiling VIM sources on Ubuntu

Thanks for that, Sebastian. Using that aptitude command indicated only libncurses5
libncursesw5
on my system. I will have to go and find the -dbg and -dev forms of those files - where ever they may be. Clearly I am under the influence of the 'new distribution' problem - well, new to me - with its particular ways of doing things. Thanks.

Ross

Sebastian 'lunar' Wiesner wrote:
Ross Maloney <rmatycorp@xxxxxxxxxxxx> typed


I have installed Xubuntu 6.10 on a PC. As a test of that environment
I have attempted to compile VIM 7.0 from sources downloaded from
www.vim.org. When I run ./configure, the process terminates with:
checking for tgetent()... configure: error: NOT FOUND!
You need to install a terminal library: for example ncurses.
Or specify the name of the library with --with-tlib.


Well, it says to install a terminal library like ncurses. A quick search
on my Ubuntu system gives me following results for this library:

[lunar@nargond]-[13:40:01] >> ~
--> aptitude search -F %p libncurses
[...]
libncurses4
libncurses5
libncurses5-dbg
libncurses5-dev
libncursesw5
libncursesw5-dbg
libncursesw5-dev

Did you try installing one of the two development packages?

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