On Mon, 2006-03-13 at 22:27 +0000, David Noble wrote:
I performed a fresh installation of Ubuntu 5.10 (server), as I had a disc lying about. I installed the 'dev tools'(?) package, copied the MySQL source over to the machine, unpacked, ran configure (with relevant options). This worked, found gcc, g++, and all that, but came to a grinding halt, reporting "no curses/termcap library found".
As others have said you should be getting the Ubuntu MySQL package with sudo apt-get install mysql-server unless there is a very good reason to be using a specific version of MySQL.
That way it will get updated with the security updates when you do an apt-get update, apt-get upgrade and stay in line with new Ubuntu releases if and when you dist-upgrade that box.
If you are ever in doubt about package names then apt-cache search (likely bit of package name) will probably help
for example apt-cache search curses would have shown (amongst others) the dev package you need.