Package Installation Error

[Niamathullah sharief]

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when try to install "libncurses5-devel" i am getting these messages




*Reading package lists... DoneBuilding dependency tree       Reading state
information... DoneE: Unable to locate package libncurses5-dev*


On Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 9:38 AM, <Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu> wrote:

> On Tue, 09 Sep 2014 09:20:42 +0530, Niamathullah sharief said:
>
> >  *** Install ncurses (ncurses-devel) and try again.
>
> >  but when i try to install ncurses i am getting as ncurses is already new
> > one.
>
> On many systems, packages are split into two parts - the part needed to run
> already-compiled binaries, and the part that is needed to create new
> binaries
> using the libraries.
>
> Did you try taking the hint from the message and installing
> 'libncurses5-devel'
> (or whatever it may be called on your distro)?
>
>
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