Comment 0 for bug 1050341

Hi,
      iam a newbie to linux environment. Iam trying to compile latest VLC on my ubuntu machine using the help of http://wiki.videolan.org/UnixCompile.
NCURSES is installed in my machine, also when i try to do a apt-get it says newer version is already available

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 i greatly appreciated.

regards,
bala