libncurses, xzcat

[Josh Brown <lovell_josh%hotmail.co.uk@localhost>]

Hello, I am trying to install vlc media player, from source, using pkgsrc, on 
Linux.

My first question is why do I have to install libncurses-dev in order to avoid 
an error message ...

http://wiki.netbsd.se/How_to_use_pkgsrc_on_Linux#libncurses_not_installed

... surely if I were using ksh or msys on windows I wouldn't have access to 
this?

My second question is that whilst compiling vlc, I get the following...

line 276: /usr/pkg/bin/xzcat: No such file or directory
/bin/tar: This does not look like a tar archive
/bin/tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
*** Error code 2

... but I can't find a package called xzcat anywhere. I don't know how to find 
and install this.
                                          
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