Need ncurses to run salticid

[selenamarie]

I ran into this today on a RHEL6 box:

[selena@]$ salticid -s salticid
/usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:in gem_original_require': no such file to load -- ncurses (LoadError) from /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:inrequire'
from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/salticid-0.9.5/bin/../lib/salticid/interface.rb:3
from /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:in gem_original_require' from /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:inrequire'
from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/salticid-0.9.5/bin/salticid:6
from /usr/bin/salticid:19:in `load'
from /usr/bin/salticid:19

I needed the following packages:

• ncurses-devel
• ruby-devel
• "Developer Tools"

And, I needed to install the ncurses gem.

Is this a doc change, or is adding ncurses to the pre-reqs something you want to do? Or something else?

[selenamarie]

Ah, I see where this was removed due to a change in ruby stdlib. c0d7997

Apparently my version of RHEL is too ancient to know this.

[jeteon]

I get a similar thing but for "curses" instead on Kubuntu 15.10.

gem install curses

Fixes it. Undocumented dependency? Or is it something deeper in how my Ruby is configured versus how it generally is?