How do i add a C/C++ library?

[lurikeen]

I'm trying to get curses.h and ncurses.h, but I have no idea how. Any help?

[ve4cib]

Have you installed the libncurses development package?


sudo apt-get install libncurses5-dev

[lurikeen]

Yep, I get this:



Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
libncurses5-dev is already the newest version.
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
linux-headers-2.6.27-7 linux-headers-2.6.27-7-generic
linux-image-2.6.27-3-rt
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.


Know what to make of this?

[ve4cib]

Nothing exciting about that output. All it's saying is that you have the package installed and that you've got a few left-over dependencies from an old upgrade kicking around.

Could you please post the output of


locate curses.h

You should get


/usr/include/curses.h
/usr/include/ncurses.h
(and maybe some other lines of output, but those are the important ones).

Provided those are there then the problem is most likely with your code and/or your Makefile.