Re: Problem compiling VIM sources on Ubuntu

* Ross Maloney wrote in comp.os.linux.misc:
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.

From what I have read, Xubuntu shares a lot of its environment with
Ubuntu and it appears that my problem has been faced by others before me
using Ubuntu. But solutions to this apparent terminal library absence
have not been posted. I have used a standard Xubuntu installation and
there is a libncurses.so in the /lib directory.

Has any body been succcessful in compiling VIM on Ubuntu, and how did
you overcome this appearent terminal library absence?


When compiling you must have the dev libraries

apt-get install libncurses5-dev
--
David
Ignore previous fortune.
.

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