gcc /usr/bin/ld: error: cannot find -lncurses

Question

I am running Ubuntu 12.04 and I\'m currently working on a project involving C, OpenGL, a teapot and input methods.

The problem started when I decided to have arrow k

Answer 1

For anyone with the same problem I had: I was missing the 32 bit libraries; I was compiling 32 bit on a 64 bit server which was missing the lib32ncurses5-dev package.

On Ubuntu I simply ran:

sudo apt-get install lib32ncurses5-dev