Re: Alsa-utils make error

[Andreas Janssen <andreas.janssen@bigfoot.com>]

Hello

Daniel Reginald Hunt (<dan@hunt.ath.cx>) wrote:

> 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 initscr in -lncurses... no
> checking for initscr in -lcurses... no
> configure: error: this packages requires a curses library

> How do I proceed?

You need ncurses packages. If you use Woody, install libncurses5 and
libncurses5-dev.

bets regards
        Andreas Janssen

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