Alsa-utils make error

[Daniel Reginald Hunt <dan@hunt.ath.cx>]

I am having a problem installing the alsa-utils package:

dhunt:/usr/src/alsa/alsa-utils-0.9.6# ./configure;make;make install
checking for a BSD compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for mawk... mawk
checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... yes
checking for gcc... gcc
checking for C compiler default output... a.out
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for executable suffix... 
checking for object suffix... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for style of include used by make... GNU
checking dependency style of gcc... gcc
checking for a BSD compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether ln -s works... yes
checking for ALSA CFLAGS... 
checking for ALSA LDFLAGS...  -lasound -lm -ldl -lpthread
checking for libasound headers version >= 0.9.0... found.
checking for snd_ctl_open in -lasound... yes
checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E
checking for ANSI C header files... yes
checking for initscr in -lncurses... no
checking for initscr in -lcurses... no
configure: error: this packages requires a curses library
make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found.  Stop.
make: *** No rule to make target `install'.  Stop.

How do I proceed?
Kind Regards
Dan Hunt