Can't build in Ubuntu 18.04, can't compile ncurses

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[Question posted by a user on YugabyteDB Community Slack ]

Getting this error when trying to build in Ubuntu 18.04 after following the docs:

[libedit (common)] configure: error: ncurses.h, curses.h, or termcap.h is required!
Execution failed with code: 1
  File "/home/awagh/yugabyte-db/thirdparty/yb_build_thirdparty_main.py", line 1086, in <module>
    main()
  File "/home/awagh/yugabyte-db/thirdparty/yb_build_thirdparty_main.py", line 1074, in main
    builder.run()
  File "/home/awagh/yugabyte-db/thirdparty/yb_build_thirdparty_main.py", line 247, in run
    self.build(BUILD_TYPE_COMMON)
  File "/home/awagh/yugabyte-db/thirdparty/yb_build_thirdparty_main.py", line 741, in build
    self.build_dependency(dep)
  File "/home/awagh/yugabyte-db/thirdparty/yb_build_thirdparty_main.py", line 822, in build_dependency
    dep.build(self)
  File "/home/awagh/yugabyte-db/thirdparty/build_definitions/libedit.py", line 33, in build
    builder.build_with_configure(log_prefix, ['--with-pic'])
  File "/home/awagh/yugabyte-db/thirdparty/yb_build_thirdparty_main.py", line 685, in build_with_configure
    log_output(log_prefix, configure_args)
  File "/home/awagh/yugabyte-db/thirdparty/build_definitions/__init__.py", line 102, in log_output
    fatal("Execution failed with code: {}".format(exit_code))
  File "/home/awagh/yugabyte-db/thirdparty/build_definitions/__init__.py", line 74, in fatal
    traceback.print_stack()
CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:559 (message):
  Thirdparty was built unsuccessfully, terminating.
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You need to install the libncurses5-dev package.