MySQL Bugs: #15818: error: No curses/termcap library found

Bug #15818	error: No curses/termcap library found
Submitted:	17 Dec 2005 3:17	Modified:	13 May 2006 2:05
Reporter:	abcwsd Jie	Email Updates:
Status:	Not a Bug	Impact on me:	None
Category:	MySQL Server: Compiling	Severity:	S3 (Non-critical)
Version:		OS:	Linux (ubuntu breey)
Assigned to:		CPU Architecture:	Any

Description:

checking for termcap functions library... configure: error: No curses/termcap library found

How to repeat:
./configure --prefix=/usr/local/mysql

Thank you for a problem report. I suppose, you mean Ubuntu 5.10 "The Breezy Badger" as your OS? Please, inform about the exact version fo MySQL you are trying to build there.

I have Ubuntu 5.04. Is it OK to check on it or 5.10 is much different?

No feedback was provided for this bug for over a month, so it is
being suspended automatically. If you are able to provide the
information that was originally requested, please do so and change
the status of the bug back to "Open".

This bug still occurs.  If there is a workaround, please post it.

FYI: Here is a link I found that may have the solution.

http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=93725

Thank you for the bug report.

checking for tgetent in -ltinfo... no
checking for termcap functions library... configure: error: No curses/termcap library found
miguel@hegel:~/dbs/mysql-4.1$

I will see if I find a workaround.

Thank you for the bug report. The issue is that the ncurses stuff isn't
instaled for to find which name Ubuntu uses for that library I did:

apt-cache search ncurses

and I found:

libncurses5-dev - Developer's libraries and docs for ncurses

and installed it with:

apt-get install libncurses5-dev

On my side also I needed to do the same with OpenSSL stuff:
apt-cache search openssl
apt-get install libssl-dev

I tried to install on Debian SARGE and I get the same problem.
apt-get install libncurses5-dev  solved problem.

Thanks

I had the same problem on Debian etch and : apt-get install libncurses5-dev    solved it

Had this error on Fedora 7.
Fixed it by doing: yum install ncurses-devel

I had the same problem on CentOS 5.1: 
checking for termcap functions library... configure: error: No curses/termcap library
found

and i also fixed it by doing: yum -y install ncurses-devel

I also had the same problem on CentOS5.1,also fixed it by doing:yum -install ncurses-devel

I also had the same problem on Ubuntu Gusty Gibbon and and : apt-get install libncurses5-dev    solved it

Thanks

I had the same bug on CentOS 5.2, fixed with yum -y install ncurses-devel

Had same problem at SuSE 10.0.

Installed ncurses-devel-5.4-71 and still get the error.

techserver512-1:~/instalados/mysql-4.1.22 # rpm -qa |grep ncurses
ncurses-5.4-71
yast2-ncurses-2.12.6-2
ncurses-32bit-5.4-71
ncurses-devel-5.4-71
techserver512-1:~/instalados/mysql-4.1.22 #

techserver512-1:~/instalados/mysql-4.1.22 # rpm -qa |grep term
libiterm-0.5.20040304-28
terminfo-5.4-71
libiterm-devel-0.5.20040304-28
techserver512-1:~/instalados/mysql-4.1.22 #

(... on mysql 5.1.30)
checking for tgetent in -ltinfo... no
checking for termcap functions library... configure: error: No curses/termcap library found
(...)

(... on mysql 4.1.22)
checking for tgetent in -ltinfo... no
checking for termcap functions library... configure: error: No curses/termcap library found
(...)

Seems missing some path. Any idea?

Had the same problem with 5.1.33 source on Suse 11
installing ncurses-devel 5.6-89.10 did the trick

[13 May 2006 4:05] 

On a Kubuntu OS 2.6.28-11, according to Miguel Solorzano (see previous post) to fix the bug:

apt-cache search ncurses

and I found:

libncurses5-dev - Developer's libraries and docs for ncurses

and installed it with:

apt-get install libncurses5-dev

I came across the same bug on CentOS 5.3 while compiling MySQL 5.0.86 and error was fixed by installing ncurses-devel

I had the same problem on CenOS 5.4: 
    
 checking for termcap functions library... configure: error:                   No  curses/termcap library found

and I also fix it by doing : yum install ncurses-devel

I had the same problem on cygwin 2.677 and installing libncurses-devel and ncurses packages solved it

I had the same problem on cygwin 2.677 and installing libncurses-devel and ncurses packages solved it

Hi All! The problem may be solved with installation ncurses-devel package. For OpenSUSE  you should search the ncurses-devel in YaST and install it. For me it's works.

Dear friends,

I Have a OpenSuse 11.3 system and i solve this problem at this way:

1-) zypper (apt-get from Suse) search ncurses
the answer:

S | Name                | Summary                                               | Type
--+---------------------+------------------------------------------------------
i | libncurses5         | The New curses Libraries | package
i | libncurses6         | The New curses Libraries | package
i | ncurses-devel       | Include Files and Libraries mandatory for Development | package
i | ncurses-utils       | Tools using the new curses libraries | package
i | yast2-ncurses       | YaST2 - Character Based User Interface | package
i | yast2-ncurses-devel | YaST2 - Character Based User Interface | package
i | yast2-ncurses-pkg   | YaST2 - Character Based Package Manager Frontend | package

In my case, i don't have all of this libs, and i give zypper install nameoflib and after i give ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/mysql and the problem is solved!

Thanks,

Allyson Oliveira.

slackware - I install ncurses-5.7 tar.gz and problem has fix.

I had the same problem on Ubuntu 12.04
apt-get install libncurses5-dev solved the problem