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
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