NCURSES not found while compiling VLC
This bug report was converted into a question: question #208497: NCURSES not found while compiling VLC.
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Bug Description
Hi,
Iam trying to compile latest VLC on my ubuntu machine using the help of http://
NCURSES is installed in my machine, also when i try to do a apt-get it says newer version is already available
but when i do ./configure in my vlc folder.i get following error.
checking libtar.h presence... yes
checking for libtar.h... yes
checking for NCURSES... no
configure: error: Package tinfo was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `tinfo.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
Package 'tinfo', required by 'ncursesw', not found.
any help is greatly appreciated.
regards,
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This really appears to be more of a question than a bug report, so I am going to convert it into a question.
Looking at the output from configure, it appears that you need to install the package: libtinfo-dev
If you scroll down a bit in http:// wiki.videolan. org/UnixCompile under the heading "The preferred method", there is a command:
sudo apt-get build-dep vlc
Which if you have the source repositories enabled (in software- properties- gtk make sure the Source Code box is ticked) should get you most of the libraries required to compile VLC.
Hope that helps.