How about that a Linux README!  I suppose I'd better READIT.  

On Tue, 8 Nov 2005 17:39:47 -0800 (PST), "Jeremy C. Reed"
<reed@reedmedia.net> said:
> On Wed, 9 Nov 2005, thoran wrote:
> 
> > I just tried to do this and I get the following:
> >
> > checking for library containing tgetent... no
> > configure: error: no relevant library found containing tgetent
> > ===> exited with status 1
> > aborted.
> 
> tgetent is provided by curses. pkgsrc can provide curses, but we don't 
> have that available via bootstrap.
> 
> Please see pkgsrc/bootstrap/README.Linux.
> 
> Please install the appropriate "developer" library for libncurses for 
> Ubuntu.
> 
>   Jeremy C. Reed
> 
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