[daip] Problem in AIPS Installation

[Poonam Chandra]

Dear AIPS Helpdesk,
   I have a Dell Inspiron 710m laptop with Ubuntu 6.10 Edgy eft installed
on it. I am trying to install 31Dec07 version of AIPS. I tried to
install with GCC version 3.4.4 as well as default gcc 4.1.2 of the
Ubuntu 6.10. In both the cases, it gives following error in INSTEP 4. I
have no clue why I am getting this error. I would really appreciate if
you could help me.
The error message is:
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LINK      :            -o
/home/soni/Softwares/AIPS/31DEC07/LINUX/PREP/SETTVP.EXE
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lncurses
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
LINK      : Status from /usr/bin/g77 is 1
LINK      : Link of    /home/soni/Softwares/AIPS/31DEC07/LINUX/PREP/SETTVP.o
LINK      : dies from wimpy compiler
LINK      : Dies of unnatural causes.
COMLNK    : Link failed!
COMLNK    : Deleted    /home/soni/Softwares/AIPS/31DEC07/LINUX/PREP/SETTVP.o
COMLNK    : Deleted    /home/soni/Softwares/AIPS/31DEC07/LINUX/PREP/SETTVP.f
COMLNK    : Dies of unnatural causes
INSTEP4    : Failure in $AIPPGM/...
INSTEP4    : compiling/linking.
INSTEP4    : Dies of unnatural causes at Sun Dec 31 11:38:45 EST 2006
AipsWiz: Error: INSTEP4 failed, no point in proceeding.
AipsWiz: Error: Look in /home/soni/Softwares/AIPS/31DEC07/LINUX/INSTALL to
see
AipsWiz: Error: if you can figure out what went wrong.  There are
AipsWiz: Error: many log and list files there.  You may want to do

grep -v ^- *.LIS


AipsWiz: Error: to see what modules did not compile or link.

AipsWiz: Install Wizard stopping.  Current settings saved in ~/.AIPSRC
AipsWiz: Abandoning ship!  Goodbye.
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Regards
Poonam