Install MySQL 5.0.51b on Ubuntu 8.10

Problem

While install MySQL 5.0.51b for Linux on Ubuntu 8.10
when I execte configure:

sudo ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/mysql --localstatedir=/var/lib/mysql --sysconfdir=/etc

got error message:

checking for tgetent in -ltermcap... no
checking for termcap functions library... configure: error: No curses/termcap library found

Solution

need to install ncurses-5.2.tar.gz，after install, set the path in the configure parameter

or maybe the ncurses is already installed, so just add path.


add

--with-named-curses-libs=/usr/lib/libncursesw.so.5

the it looks like this:

sudo ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/mysql --localstatedir=/var/lib/mysql --sysconfdir=/etc --with-named-curses-libs=/usr/lib/libncursesw.so.5