curses.h: No such file or directory Problem Solution
How do I fix this error under Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) or CentOS / Fedora Linux?
You need to install the curses library which include routines for a terminal-independent method of updating character screens with reasonable optimization. The ncurses (new curses) library is a freely distributable replacement for the discontinued 4.4 BSD classic curses library.
Fix this error on RHEL / Fedora / CentOS Linux
Type the following yum command at a shell prompt as root user:
# yum install ncurses-devel ncurses
Sample output:
Loading "downloadonly" plugin Loading "rhnplugin" plugin Loading "security" plugin rhel-x86_64-server-vt-5 100% |=========================| 1.2 kB 00:00 rhel-x86_64-server-5 100% |=========================| 1.2 kB 00:00 Setting up Install Process Parsing package install arguments Package ncurses - 5.5-24.20060715.x86_64 is already installed. Package ncurses - 5.5-24.20060715.i386 is already installed. Resolving Dependencies --> Running transaction check ---> Package ncurses-devel.x86_64 0:5.5-24.20060715 set to be updated ---> Package ncurses-devel.i386 0:5.5-24.20060715 set to be updated --> Finished Dependency Resolution Dependencies Resolved ============================================================================= Package Arch Version Repository Size ============================================================================= Installing: ncurses-devel x86_64 5.5-24.20060715 rhel-x86_64-server-5 1.7 M ncurses-devel i386 5.5-24.20060715 rhel-x86_64-server-5 1.6 M Transaction Summary ============================================================================= Install 2 Package(s) Update 0 Package(s) Remove 0 Package(s) Total download size: 3.3 M Is this ok [y/N]: y Downloading Packages: (1/2): ncurses-devel-5.5- 100% |=========================| 1.6 MB 00:01 (2/2): ncurses-devel-5.5- 100% |=========================| 1.7 MB 00:01 Running rpm_check_debug Running Transaction Test Finished Transaction Test Transaction Test Succeeded Running Transaction Installing: ncurses-devel ######################### [1/2] Installing: ncurses-devel ######################### [2/2] Installed: ncurses-devel.x86_64 0:5.5-24.20060715 ncurses-devel.i386 0:5.5-24.20060715 Complete!
Fix this error on Debian / Ubuntu Linux
Open terminal and type the following apt-get command to install ncurses:
$ sudo apt-get install libncurses5-dev libncursesw5-dev
Now you should able to compile any program under Linux using ncurses. Here is a sample command to compile and use ncurses:
$ gcc -o output input.c -lncurses
$ ./output
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cool thanks
Thanks! It helps me a lot.
I installed libncursesw5-dev in ubuntu by using
$ sudo apt-get install libncurses5-dev libncursesw5-dev
command and also checked in synaptic package manager but I’m still facing the same problem when I’m going to compile in gcc.
Well, maybe you forgot to add “-lncurses” at the end of command.
Like this:
gcc -o game main.c -lncurses
I hope this may help you.
thanks Edward, including -lncurses solved my compilation problem.
Oh! Perhaps the setings of curses on your computer hadn’t been set to use ncurses lib automaticly. You may use ” ls -l /usr/include/curses.h” to check this. If curses.h is not a link to ncurses.h (or ncurses.h is not a link to curses.h), you need to add ” -I /usr/include/ncurses ” to use lib ncurses forcely.
cool, thanks
Thanks buddy…
Thanks Pal, I was installing cscope on RHEL 6, on which I had ncurses package installed already. ncurses-devel package did the magic.
Thanks for the help!
When I’m trying this “sudo apt-get install libncurses5-dev libncursesw5-dev”
the follwoing error occur;
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
E: Unable to locate package libncruses5-dev
E: Unable to locate package libncrusesw5-dev
You can use “apt-cache search ncurses ncursesw” to find out what the exactly name.
hi
i done “yum install ncurses-devel ncurses” and installed properly… den also i am getting error
[root@localhost ~]# ./configure
bash: ./configure: No such file or directory
plz help me ..plz
$ which ncurses
$ rpm -qa|grep ncurses
Looks ncurses is installed but still am not able to run it, anybody can help me please?
Install ncurses-devel.
Old post, I know, but thank you most kindly for the answer as it’s solved an issue I was having compiling SBBS on my system! Many thanks!
Solved my issues as well. And nice tweets. More power nixCraft!
i have tried to run that yum command but i am still getting this error .
Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit, rhnplugin
This system is not registered with RHN.
RHN support will be disabled.
Setting up Install Process
No package ncurses-devel available.
Nothing to do
plz help me . i am trying but nothing is helping me .
i am using red hat .
i have also used sudo command but it is not working . i having this error . i entered my password for user then got this error my user is waleed .
waleed is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported..
help needed urgently .
You aren’t allowed to install software. If you are the owner of this computer, that’s a serious problem: you’ll need to get it fixed. More likely, you don’t own the computer, so you need to ask the owner/technician/etc to install it for you.
Awesome!