Unable to find the ncurses libraries

linux kernelのコンパイル中に次のエラーが発生しました.

 *** Unable to find the ncurses libraries or the
 *** required header files.
 *** 'make menuconfig' requires the ncurses libraries.
 *** 
 *** Install ncurses (ncurses-devel) and try again.
 *** 
make[1]: *** [scripts/kconfig/dochecklxdialog] Error 1
make: *** [menuconfig] Error 2

解決策

sudo apt-get install ncurses-dev