Link error: "Cannot find -ltinfo" on Ubuntu 12.04 on a 32-bit arm processor

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Henrik picture Henrik · Jan 15, 2014 · Viewed 12.4k times · Source

I get the following link error when I'm compiling a small function using ncurses for an Ubuntu 12.04 running on arm. The error is

arm-linux-gnueabihf/bin/ld: cannot find -ltinfo

A lot of hints are floating around on what to install, but I can't seem to find any packages that does the trick for my arm box.

I have done

sudo apt-get install libncurses5-dev

And this does not contain the tinfo library. Other suggestions usually result in the library is "not available but referred by another package" or "has no installation candidate".

All help is appreciated

/Henrik

Answer

Gerbrand picture Gerbrand · May 12, 2015

As mentioned by lucasg

sudo apt-get install libtinfo-dev

solved the same problem for me.

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