Installer missing ncurses

[Super-Spencer]

System Xubuntu 20.04.

.configure && make brings "configure: error: missing libraries: libncurses"

I do an additional installation (to libncurses6 and libncurses-dev) of:

• libncurses5-dev (transitional package for libncurses-dev)
• libncurses5 (shared libraries for terminal handling (legacy version))

After the program libraries have been set up, the installation runs.

[rien333]

That is generally how make works. make is not an installer, but it calls various compilation related commands (or something like that). You install the dependencies yourself (and if you don't like that, well, that's why distros have package managers). In essence, what you're describing is not an issue, but expected behavior.

If this is something that even needs solving, perhaps the readme can use slightly more detailed, distro specific comments on how to build htop from source.

[natoscott]

Please feel free to open a PR to update the docs. The configure mechanism is operating as designed here though.

[Super-Spencer]

Thank you for your answers and explanation!
@natoscott PR means Public Request? Sorry I am new to it.

[natoscott]

@Super-Spencer PR is "Pull Request" - its a way of making changes to the docs/code via github.