# Asterisk 1.0.9 fails to compile on SuSE 9.2: termcap support

**URL:** <https://community.asterisk.org/t/asterisk-1-0-9-fails-to-compile-on-suse-9-2-termcap-support/1720>\
**Category:** Asterisk Support\
**Created:** [October 4, 2005, 2:13pm UTC](https://community.asterisk.org/t/asterisk-1-0-9-fails-to-compile-on-suse-9-2-termcap-support/1720 "2005-10-04T14:13:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![radudumi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/34f0e0/32.png) [@radudumi](https://community.asterisk.org/u/radudumi)\
**Post date:** [October 4, 2005, 2:13pm UTC](https://community.asterisk.org/t/asterisk-1-0-9-fails-to-compile-on-suse-9-2-termcap-support/1720/1 "2005-10-04T14:13:09Z")

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Hello,

I have got the following messages when running “make”:

`checking for tgetent in -ltermcap... no
checking for tgetent in -ltinfo... no
checking for tgetent in -lcurses... no
checking for tgetent in -lncurses... no
configure: error: termcap support not found
make: *** [editline/libedit.a] Error 1
`

I have checked (using yast) that I have the following packages:

termcap 2.0.8-878  
bison 1.875-53  
ncurses 5.4-65  
libssl.so.0.9.7 (from OpenSSL 0.9.7d-25)  
libnewt-devel 0.50.8-733.1  
zlib 1.2.1-74

Do you have any idea what I should do to make the error messages go away?

Thank you in advance.

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**Author:** ![konabi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/838e76/32.png) [@konabi](https://community.asterisk.org/u/konabi)\
**Post date:** [October 4, 2005, 5:36pm UTC](https://community.asterisk.org/t/asterisk-1-0-9-fails-to-compile-on-suse-9-2-termcap-support/1720/2 "2005-10-04T17:36:16Z")

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Have you installed ncurses-devel?  
I also installed zlib, zlib-dev and lib.

Sven

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**Author:** ![radudumi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/34f0e0/32.png) [@radudumi](https://community.asterisk.org/u/radudumi)\
**Post date:** [October 5, 2005, 8:25am UTC](https://community.asterisk.org/t/asterisk-1-0-9-fails-to-compile-on-suse-9-2-termcap-support/1720/3 "2005-10-05T08:25:34Z")

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I have installed ncurses-devel and the compilation works now.

Thank you for the suggestion.