On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 5:02 PM, Bruce Visscher <bruce.visscher(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: >> IIRC Matts is correct, you must have ncurses install on Ubuntu to get >> XEmacs working. I don't remember *which* exact packages and my notes >> are at work. But here is what I have installed: >> >> % dpkg --get-selections | fgrep curses >> libncurses5                                     install >> libncurses5-dbg                                 install >> libncurses5-dev                                 install   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ This is the one you need. >> libncursesw5                                    install >> ncurses-base                                    install >> ncurses-bin                                     install >> >> Cheers, >>   Sean > > % dpkg --get-selections | fgrep curses > lib64ncurses5                                   deinstall > libncurses5                                     install > libncursesw5                                    install > ncurses-base                                    install > ncurses-bin                                     install > ncurses-term                                    install Notice it isn't on your list.  Regards, -- Jerry James http://www.jamezone.org/