[Asterisk-Users] Trouble installing

[Steven Critchfield]

On Mon, 2003-04-14 at 21:12, Derek Beaumont wrote:
> I am trying to run the make command to install Asterisk, but I get the 
> following error:
> 
> 
> make
> ...
> ...
> 
> checking for tgetent in -ltermcap ... no
> checking for tgetent in -ltinfo ... no
> checking for tgetent in -lcurses ... no
> checking for tgetent in -lncurses ... no
> configure: error: termcap support not found
> 
> 
> I am running Mandrake 9.1 on a Pentium II 200MHz.
> Could this be a hardware issue?  I have Mandrake 9.1 running on my laptop 
> and I was
> able to install the program with no difficulty.
> 
> Any help will be greatly appreciated.

This is my pet peeve. Mandrake and Redhat insulate new users so much
from the system that they don't always know what they did different from
one install to the next.

To anwser your question, start looking for -devel packages like
libtermcap-devel, and you may need libncurses-devel.

-- 
Steven Critchfield <critch at basesys.com>