Re: [opencbm-user] Starting All Over From Scratch

[Steven H. <snh...@gm...>]

On Thu, 13 Jun 2024, Myke Carter wrote:

> OK.  Here are the details of my OpenCBM installation experience so far 
> running Linux Mint which is Debian-based.

> The compilation from source began but ultimately bombed out at the following 
> step:
>
> make[1]: Entering directory 
> '/home/mykec/Desktop/opencbm-0.4.99.104/opencbm/cbmlinetester'
> gcc -g -O2 -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -Wall -I../include -I../include/LINUX 
> -DPREFIX=\"/usr/local\" -DOPENCBM_CONFIG_FILE=\"/etc/opencbm.conf\" 
> -fstack-protector  -DHAVE_NCURSES -o cbmlinetester.o -c cbmlinetester.c
> cbmlinetester.c:19:11: fatal error: ncurses.h: No such file or directory
>   19 | # include <ncurses.h>
>      |           ^~~~~~~~~~~
> compilation terminated.
> make[1]: *** [../LINUX/prgrules.make:20: cbmlinetester.o] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory 
> '/home/mykec/Desktop/opencbm-0.4.99.104/opencbm/cbmlinetester'
> make: *** [LINUX/Makefile:87: BUILDSYSTEM.opencbm/cbmlinetester.all] Error 2
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> So, what must I do to make the "ncurses.h" file be present on my system in 
> the location OpenCBM is expecting to find it?

On my Ubuntu 18.04 system /usr/include/ncurses.h is a symlink to 
/usr/include/curses.h and is provided by this package:

libncurses5-dev

So, "apt install libncurses5-dev" should get you past that point.