I am trying to build AOSP from source. I am unable as I recieve this error:

 error while loading shared libraries: libncurses.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory    06:11:49 ninja failed with: exit status 1

looking into which versions i have,

find /usr/lib/ -name *ncurses*

I get this:

    /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libncurses.so.6.4
    /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libncurses.so
    /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libncurses.a
    /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libncursesw.so.6.4
    /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libncursesw.so.6
    /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libncurses.so.6
    /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libncursesw.a
    /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libncursesw.so
    /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/vlc/plugins/gui/libncurses_plugin.so
    /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libncurses++w.a
    /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libncurses++.a
    /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/pkgconfig/ncursesw.pc
    /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/pkgconfig/ncurses++.pc
    /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/pkgconfig/ncurses.pc
    /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/pkgconfig/ncurses++w.pc
    /usr/lib/valgrind/ncurses.supp`

Notice no libncurses5
So we’ll do an update and

    sudo apt-get install libncurses5

But to my surprise I get this…

    [sudo] password for jr: 
    Reading package lists... Done
    Building dependency tree... Done
    Reading state information... Done
    E: Unable to locate package libncurses5

did some digging and found that in order to install the ncurses library in ubuntu, I must first install libncurses5-dev & libncursesw5-dev…..

    sudo apt-get install libncurses5-dev libncursesw5-dev

    [sudo] password for jr: 
    Reading package lists... Done
    Building dependency tree... Done
    Reading state information... Done
    Note, selecting 'libncurses-dev' instead of 'libncurses5-dev'
    Note, selecting 'libncurses-dev' instead of 'libncursesw5-dev'
    libncurses-dev is already the newest version (6.4+20240113-1ubuntu2).
    0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 14 not upgraded.