# Compiling error - Says I don't have curses.h and I'm on linux Help

**URL:** <https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/compiling-error-says-i-dont-have-curses-h-and-im-on-linux-help/11447>\
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**Created:** [February 23, 2016, 3:02pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/compiling-error-says-i-dont-have-curses-h-and-im-on-linux-help/11447 "2016-02-23T15:02:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![omega\_alpha\_psi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/85e7bf/32.png) [@omega\_alpha\_psi](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/omega_alpha_psi)\
**Post date:** [February 23, 2016, 3:02pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/compiling-error-says-i-dont-have-curses-h-and-im-on-linux-help/11447/1 "2016-02-23T15:02:04Z")

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So the title explains my problem, I’m running a VM at school and I want to play cataclysm and my VM is running ubuntu 14.04 LTS server edition, and this is what it outputs when I use make

g++ -DGIT\_VERSION -DLOCALIZE -ffast-math -Og -Wall -Wextra -g -D\_GLIBCXX\_DEBUG --std=c++11 -MMD -I/usr/include/ncurs  
esw -c src/action.cpp -o obj/action.o  
In file included from src/color.h:4:0,  
from src/output.h:4,  
from src/action.cpp:2:  
src/cursesdef.h:10:20: fatal error: curses.h: No such file or directory  
#include \<curses.h\>  
^  
compilation terminated.  
make: \*\*\* [obj/action.o] Error 1

If anyone could help me that would be great