# Configure: error: \*\*\* termcap support not found

**URL:** <https://community.asterisk.org/t/configure-error-termcap-support-not-found/27403>\
**Category:** Asterisk Support\
**Created:** [June 5, 2009, 11:11am UTC](https://community.asterisk.org/t/configure-error-termcap-support-not-found/27403 "2009-06-05T11:11:19Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![jagspaul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/34f0e0/32.png) [@jagspaul](https://community.asterisk.org/u/jagspaul)\
**Post date:** [June 5, 2009, 11:11am UTC](https://community.asterisk.org/t/configure-error-termcap-support-not-found/27403/1 "2009-06-05T11:11:19Z")

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I am new in Asterisk and Linux too. I am using Linux Distribution “UBUNTU 8.x “ (linux kernel ver 2.6 )  
When I try to configure the Asterisk (ver 1.6)  
./configure  
Following error is encountered  
configure: error: \*\*\* termcap support not found

now please tell me where to download and how to install “libtermcap-develâ€

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**Author:** ![bira\_more](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bbce88/32.png) [@bira\_more](https://community.asterisk.org/u/bira_more)\
**Post date:** [June 5, 2009, 12:26pm UTC](https://community.asterisk.org/t/configure-error-termcap-support-not-found/27403/2 "2009-06-05T12:26:21Z")

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apt-get install libtermcap-devel

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**Author:** ![jagspaul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/34f0e0/32.png) [@jagspaul](https://community.asterisk.org/u/jagspaul)\
**Post date:** [June 7, 2009, 6:37pm UTC](https://community.asterisk.org/t/configure-error-termcap-support-not-found/27403/3 "2009-06-07T18:37:31Z")

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when i use sudo apt-get install libtermcap-devel  
error showing:  
Couldn’t find package libtermcap-devel  
i think there will be some different name for this package.

thanks for your reply.

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**Author:** ![jagspaul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/34f0e0/32.png) [@jagspaul](https://community.asterisk.org/u/jagspaul)\
**Post date:** [June 7, 2009, 6:42pm UTC](https://community.asterisk.org/t/configure-error-termcap-support-not-found/27403/4 "2009-06-07T18:42:24Z")

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hi,  
using command  
apt-get install libncurses5-dev the problem has been fixed.

thanks