$sudo apt-get build-dep erlang<br>$sudo apt-get install tk <br><br>That will get all the dependancies for you<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2008/12/8 Mikael Pettersson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mikpe@it.uu.se">mikpe@it.uu.se</a>></span><br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="Ih2E3d">Francois De Serres writes:<br>
> Hi there,<br>
><br>
> I am trying to build the latest release on Ubuntu 8.10, using a --prefix=/home/...<br>
> ./configure fails with the error below.<br>
> I tried to install more ncurses libs but it did not help.<br>
><br>
> Can someone please advise?<br>
><br>
> Thanks,<br>
> --<br>
> François<br>
><br>
> [...]<br>
> checking whether the child waiter thread should be enabled... yes on SMP build, but not on non-SMP build<br>
> checking for tgetent in -lncurses... no<br>
> checking for tgetent in -lcurses... no<br>
> checking for tgetent in -ltermcap... no<br>
> checking for tgetent in -ltermlib... no<br>
> configure: error: No curses library functions found<br>
> configure: error: /bin/bash '/home/fdeserres/tmp/otp_src_R12B-5/erts/configure' failed for erts<br>
<br>
</div>Presumably you only installed the ncurses runtime libraries?<br>
To build Erlang you also need the development libraries.<br>
(No I don't know what they're called on Ubuntu. ncurses-devel perhaps?)<br>
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