On 30 September 2011 20:10, Colin Yates <colin.ya...@gmail.com> wrote: > gem1.9.1 install ncursesw > Building native extensions. This could take a while... > ERROR: Error installing ncursesw: > ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension. > > /usr/bin/ruby1.9.1 extconf.rb > checking for unistd.h... yes > checking for locale.h... yes > checking for ncurses.h... no > checking for ncurses/curses.h... no > checking for curses.h... no > *** extconf.rb failed ***
This means you don't have the development library of ncurses installed, so you need to do: sudo aptitude install libncurses5-dev libncursesw5-dev (From http://sup.rubyforge.org/wiki/wiki.pl?Debian/Ubuntu_Hints ) Hamish _______________________________________________ sup-talk mailing list sup-talk@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/sup-talk