Error when compiling tinc 1.1pre3 - configure: error: "curses header files not found."

[Guus Sliepen]

On Sun, Nov 11, 2012 at 02:33:36PM +0100, Håvard Rabbe wrote:

> I'm trying to compile tinc-vpn 1.1pre3 on Ubuntu 12.10, but I get this error:
> 
> checking curses.h usability... no
> checking curses.h presence... no
> checking for curses.h... no
> configure: error: "curses header files not found."
> 
> I have also made sure that zlib, lzo and libevent is installed by installing the packages zlib1g, zlib1g-dev, liblzo2-2, liblzo2-dev, libevent-dbg and libevent-dev.
> I think these packages are the  correct ones.
> 
> Do you have any idea of what's wrong? What am I missing?

You should install libncurses5-dev and libreadline6-dev as well. I see that
isn't mentioned in the manual, I'll add that.

-- 
Met vriendelijke groet / with kind regards,
     Guus Sliepen <guus at tinc-vpn.org>
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