I am suddenly having this issue when installing Erlang with mise (formerly rtx, an asdf alternative that uses asdf plugins).
I am on Ubuntu 23.10 and also use nix+home-manager to manage most of my packages (I still use some from apt).
I was also seeing this on my work macbook the other day when getting home-manager+nix-darwin setup there, but was able to fix it eventually, not really sure how.
Now I’m seeing it on Linux and am very confused.
I was thinking maybe that ncurses wasn’t installed, but I have ncurses6 installed via apt, then I saw something that it doesn’t distribute ncurses5 anymore, which is what asdf-elixir lists as a dependency.
I installed ncurses5 via a nix shell, but get the same result.
Any ideas?
mise ~/.local/share/mise/plugins/erlang/bin/install failed
Downloading kerl...
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
100 74085 100 74085 0 0 453k 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 455k
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 0
100 102M 100 102M 0 0 16.0M 0 0:00:06 0:00:06 --:--:-- 24.1M
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/mitchell/.local/share/mise/plugins/erlang/kerl-home/builds/asdf_26.1.2/otp_src_26.1.2/erts/configure failed!
./configure: 370: kill: No such process