configure: error: No curses/termcap library found

On installing MySQL from source, i get error checking for tgetent in -lncurses… no checking for tgetent in -lcurses… no checking for tgetent in -ltermcap… no checking for tgetent in -ltinfo… no checking for termcap functions library… configure: error: No curses/termcap library found SOLUTION Lets search for ncurses [root@server52 mysql-5.1.23-ndb-6.2.15]# yum list|grep ncurses Repository base … Read more