ImportError no module named _curses

[pawamoy]

When running retox I get this error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/pawamoy/Data/isolated/virtualenvs/py35/bin/retox", line 7, in <module>
    from retox.__main__ import main
  File "/home/pawamoy/Data/isolated/virtualenvs/py35/lib/python3.5/site-packages/retox/__main__.py", line 11, in <module>
    from asciimatics.screen import Screen
  File "/home/pawamoy/Data/isolated/virtualenvs/py35/lib/python3.5/site-packages/asciimatics/screen.py", line 1918, in <module>
    import curses
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.5/curses/__init__.py", line 13, in <module>
    from _curses import *
ImportError: No module named '_curses'

Am I missing a dependency here? I already have libncurses5-dev installed. I'm on Debian Jessie by the way.

[pawamoy]

It might be that I built Python without support for curses back then. I'll try to rebuild it and see what happens.

[pawamoy]

Alright, it's working now. So the solution is to install libncurses5-dev and rebuild Python.

[tonybaloney]

Thanks for the heads up. I’ll add it to the documentation