You might also want to take note of this:

https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/shadow/+bug/34606

Ubuntu 5.10 apparently leaves your main user's (the one you can sudo from!) password in plain text, in a world readable file after install.. :S.. although there is an upgrade if you want to trust that no one's root kitted your system already....

As for libcurses, try apt-get install libncurses5-dev

I use http://packages.ubuntu.com when I'm frustrated by the occasionally annoying package naming. It's nice. :-)

Rob.

On 13/03/06, David Noble davidwnoble@gmail.com wrote:

Hi!,

After getting my bulletin board to work on my Debian system, I decided that as it wasn't using too many resources I might as well move it onto (another) old school computer (Celeron 600; 64m ram)...

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".

I checked that I had ncurses installed- I have ncurses-base. However, an "apt-get install ncurses-devel", or an "apt-get ncurses-dev" returns no results.

What should I do- I don't seem to be able to find any relevant .deb packages on the 'net. I also have no internet access to this ubuntu machine as I am at <strike>prison</strike> school.

Any suggestions appreciated,

Dave.

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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.