Couldn't find package libncurses5-dev

While installing Vim 7.3 on ubuntu 10.04 LTS, I encounter an error as below

checking --with-tlib argument... empty: automatic terminal library selection

checking for tgetent in -lncurses... no

checking for tgetent in -ltermlib... no

checking for tgetent in -ltermcap... no

checking for开发者_运维知识库 tgetent in -lcurses... no no terminal library found

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.

and then I googled and found that I need to install libncurses-dev, so I typed

$ sudo apt-get install libncurses-dev

Package libncurses-dev is not available, but is referred to by

another package. This may mean that the package is missing, has been

obsoleted, or is only available from another source

E: Package libncurses-dev has no installation candidate

When I change libncurses-dev to libncurses5-dev, I got error

$ sudo apt-get install libncurses5-dev

E: Couldn't find package libncurses5-dev

So what happened?

Thank you.

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Certainly solved and not really related to your initial problem but might help someone :)

Check that you have libncurses5-dev package installed

sudo aptitude search %p libncurses

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This should give you something like:

i libncurses5 - Bibliothèques partagées pour l'utilisation d'un terminal
i libncurses5-dev - developer's libraries for ncurses

which here means that the package is installed

Same result with:

find /usr -name "libncurse*"

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If not:

sudo apt-get install libncurses5-dev

Then to configure vim with maximum options:

./configure --with-features=huge --with-tlib=ncurses

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Go to Sytem -> Administration -> Software Sources and make sure that you have all the relevant sources checked. Then do a apt-get update

This might help:

http://www.liberiangeek.net/2010/06/configuring-software-sources-ubuntu-10-04-lucid-lynx-receive-updatespatches/

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Fix Error configure: error: libncurses5-dev is missing on centos

[root@centos601 ~]# yum install ncurses-devel

http://centostoday.com/configure-error-libncurses5-dev-missing.html