NCURSES not found while compiling VLC
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,
Question information
- Language:
- English Edit question
- Status:
- Solved
- For:
- Ubuntu ncurses Edit question
- Assignee:
- No assignee Edit question
- Solved by:
- actionparsnip
- Solved:
- 2012-09-17
- Last query:
- 2012-09-17
- Last reply:
- 2012-09-14
This question was originally filed as bug #1050341.
Jason Conti (jconti) said : | #1 |
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://
sudo apt-get build-dep vlc
Which if you have the source repositories enabled (in software-
Hope that helps.
Can you give the output of:
lsb_release -a; uname -a
Thanks
Hi jason Conti,
thanks,
Hi actionparsnip, please find the output of lsb_release -a; uname -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 11.10
Release: 11.10
Codename: oneiric
Linux balagopal-
Thanks
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:videolan/
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install vlc
Will give you 2.0.3
Jason Conti (jconti) said : | #6 |
Oh, seems there actually might be a bug here, I found: https:/
It seems that tinfo.pc wasn't being provided by libtinfo-dev in oneiric. However the package was just updated in oneiric-proposed which should fix your bug. Please see https:/
Thanks should go to actionparsnip, I never would have noticed the bug without his requested additional info. Apologies for converting to a question prematurely.
I reinstalled latest ubuntu release(Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS) in my machine and the problem is fixed now.
Thanks for all your help.
regards,
Bala
Thanks actionparsnip, that solved my question.