can't get zsh to compile on Ubuntu

can't get zsh to compile on Ubuntu

[TjL]

I'm fairly new to Ubuntu, so maybe I'm doing something wrong here, but
I can't get zsh to compile.

I tried 'sudo apt-get install zsh-dev' but that only gave me 4.3.6

./configure fails looking for:

configure: error: "No terminal handling library was found on your system.
This is probably a library called 'curses' or 'ncurses'.  You may
need to install a package called 'curses-devel' or 'ncurses-devel' on your
system."
See `config.log' for more details.
[1]    23930 exit 255   ./configure

I tried apt-get install on (n)curses(-devel) but none of them exist.

Anyone have a clue I can borrow?

TjL

Re: can't get zsh to compile on Ubuntu

[Christian Schneider]

Thus spake TjL (luomat@gmail.com):
> I'm fairly new to Ubuntu, so maybe I'm doing something wrong here, but
> I can't get zsh to compile.
> 
> I tried 'sudo apt-get install zsh-dev' but that only gave me 4.3.6
> 
> ./configure fails looking for:
> 
> configure: error: "No terminal handling library was found on your system.
> This is probably a library called 'curses' or 'ncurses'.  You may
> need to install a package called 'curses-devel' or 'ncurses-devel' on your
> system."
> See `config.log' for more details.
> [1]    23930 exit 255   ./configure
> 
> I tried apt-get install on (n)curses(-devel) but none of them exist.

Try ``libncurses5-dev'' instead of ncurses-devel.

Re: can't get zsh to compile on Ubuntu

[Frank Terbeck]

TjL <luomat@gmail.com>:
> I'm fairly new to Ubuntu, so maybe I'm doing something wrong here, but
> I can't get zsh to compile.
> 
> I tried 'sudo apt-get install zsh-dev' but that only gave me 4.3.6
> 
> ./configure fails looking for:
> 
> configure: error: "No terminal handling library was found on your system.
> This is probably a library called 'curses' or 'ncurses'.  You may
> need to install a package called 'curses-devel' or 'ncurses-devel' on your
> system."
> See `config.log' for more details.
> [1]    23930 exit 255   ./configure
> 
> I tried apt-get install on (n)curses(-devel) but none of them exist.
> 
> Anyone have a clue I can borrow?

% apt-cache search 'curses.*-dev'

Regards, Frank

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Re: can't get zsh to compile on Ubuntu

[Clint Adams]

On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 03:26:55PM -0400, TjL wrote:
> I tried apt-get install on (n)curses(-devel) but none of them exist.

apt-get build-dep zsh

Re: can't get zsh to compile on Ubuntu

[William G. Scott]

On Mar 15, 2009, at 12:26 PM, TjL wrote:

> I'm fairly new to Ubuntu,

I apologize if you already know this, but it is available pre-compiled  
too:

http://packages.ubuntu.com/intrepid/zsh