libncurses5-dev software package provides developers libraries for ncurses, you can install in your Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr) by running the commands given below on the terminal,
$ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get install libncurses5-dev
libncurses5-dev is installed in your system.
Make ensure the libncurses5-dev package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep libncurses5-dev *
You will get with libncurses5-dev package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Ubuntu 14 04 lts trusty tahr |
| Section | Library development |
| Package | libncurses5-dev |
| Version | 5.9+20140118-1ubuntu1 |
| Description | developers libraries for ncurses |
| Sub Section | libdevel |
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