can't find /usr/include/ncurses

[Mario Vukelic]

On Wed, 2006-07-26 at 16:01 -0700, maxim wexler wrote:
> (/var/lib/apt/lists/security.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_breezy-security_universe_binary-i386_Packages)
> - stat (2 No such file or directory)
> W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these
> problems
> E: Couldn't find package libncurses5-dev
> 
> Ha! "Run apt-get update to correct these problems".
> That's a good one. 

Why don't you follow the advice given by apt-get ("Run apt-get update to
correct these problems") instead of saying "That's a good one" and then
running off and trying to install incompatible Debian versions with dpkg
(which will get you nowhere)?