attempting to compile minicom 2.3

[Adam Lackorzynski]

Hi,

On Thu Dec 17, 2009 at 17:00:40 -0700, Mike Stansberry wrote:
> I have been attempting to compile minicom 2.3 on a Ubuntu 9.04 system
> but I get many errors including one pointing to a missing termcap.h
> file.
> 
> I wanted to attempt to make one small change in the program but I'm
> afraid that I'm not experienced enough in C programming to figure
> out the errors when running 'make'.
> 
> Maybe I should just give up and unsubscribe from this mail list
> but if there is someone that is willing to help me, I might
> continue to try to get the program to compile.

You need to install the libncurses5-dev package, it contains the header.



Adam
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