joshua.aug

joshua.aug

Errors when using asdf install - configure: error: No curses library functions found

I’m trying to install a version of Erlang using asdf and I get this:

$ asdf install
elixir 1.14.3-otp-25 is already installed
asdf_25.2.3 is not a kerl-managed Erlang/OTP installation
The asdf_25.2.3 build has been deleted
Extracting source code
Building Erlang/OTP 25.2.3 (asdf_25.2.3), please wait...
[packages] Probe failed for libssl-dev (distro: ubuntu): probe "dpkg-query -Wf'${db:Status-abbrev}' "libssl-dev" 2>/dev/null | \grep -q '^i'" returned 1
[packages] Probe failed for automake (distro: ubuntu): probe "dpkg-query -Wf'${db:Status-abbrev}' "automake" 2>/dev/null | \grep -q '^i'" returned 1
[packages] Probe failed for autoconf (distro: ubuntu): probe "dpkg-query -Wf'${db:Status-abbrev}' "autoconf" 2>/dev/null | \grep -q '^i'" returned 1
[packages] Probe failed for libncurses5-dev (distro: ubuntu): probe "dpkg-query -Wf'${db:Status-abbrev}' "libncurses5-dev" 2>/dev/null | \grep -q '^i'" returned 1
Configure failed.
checking for kstat_open in -lkstat... (cached) no
checking for tgetent in -ltinfo... no
checking for tgetent in -lncurses... no
checking for tgetent in -lcurses... no
checking for tgetent in -ltermcap... no
checking for tgetent in -ltermlib... no
configure: error: No curses library functions found
ERROR: /home/jauggy/.asdf/plugins/erlang/kerl-home/builds/asdf_25.2.3/otp_src_25.2.3/erts/configure failed!
./configure: 370: kill: No such process

I’m running the command on WSL (Ubuntu v22.04). This is the first time I’ve used asdf so no idea what’s wrong. The .tool-versions file shows:

erlang 25.2.3
elixir 1.14.3-otp-25

Looking at the documentation here:
asdf-vm/asdf-erlang: Erlang plugin for asdf version manager (github.com)
it says I might have to run:

apt-get -y install build-essential autoconf m4 libncurses5-dev libwxgtk3.0-gtk3-dev libwxgtk-webview3.0-gtk3-dev libgl1-mesa-dev libglu1-mesa-dev libpng-dev libssh-dev unixodbc-dev xsltproc fop libxml2-utils libncurses-dev openjdk-11-jdk

but not sure if that’s overkill and instead should I just be installing the four that I’m missing (libssl-dev, automake, autoconf, libncurses5-dev).

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dimitarvp

dimitarvp

No, Ubuntu version has nothing to do with this, they are dependencies of Erlang.

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