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Re: can't get zsh to compile on Ubuntu

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From: Christian Schneider <strcat@xxxxxxx>
To: TjL <luomat@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: can't get zsh to compile on Ubuntu
Date: Sun, 15 Mar 2009 20:37:13 +0100
Cc: Zsh Users List <zsh-users@xxxxxxxxxx>
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Thus spake TjL (luomat@xxxxxxxxx):
> I'm fairly new to Ubuntu, so maybe I'm doing something wrong here, but
> I can't get zsh to compile.
> 
> I tried 'sudo apt-get install zsh-dev' but that only gave me 4.3.6
> 
> ./configure fails looking for:
> 
> configure: error: "No terminal handling library was found on your system.
> This is probably a library called 'curses' or 'ncurses'.  You may
> need to install a package called 'curses-devel' or 'ncurses-devel' on your
> system."
> See `config.log' for more details.
> [1]    23930 exit 255   ./configure
> 
> I tried apt-get install on (n)curses(-devel) but none of them exist.

Try ``libncurses5-dev'' instead of ncurses-devel.

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- can't get zsh to compile on Ubuntu
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