[yocto] Unable to find the ncurses libraries when running menuconfig

[Nick D'Ademo]

Getting a strange error when attempting to configure the Yocto Linux kernel
via: bitbake linux-yocto -c menuconfig.

Does anyone have any ideas? (error message below)
Much appreciated.

Build Configuration:
BB_VERSION        = "1.24.0"
BUILD_SYS         = "x86_64-linux"
NATIVELSBSTRING   = "Ubuntu-14.04"
TARGET_SYS        = "x86_64-poky-linux"
MACHINE           = "nuc"
DISTRO            = "poky"
DISTRO_VERSION    = "1.7"
TUNE_FEATURES     = "m64 corei7"
TARGET_FPU        = ""















*make[1]: Entering directory
`/home/nick/poky/build/tmp/work/corei7-64-intel-common-poky-linux/linux-yocto/3.17.1+gitAUTOINC+b86dd5c6f4_0caf16d385-r0/linux-corei7-64-intel-common-standard-build'
GEN     ./Makefile *** 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[3]: *** [scripts/kconfig/dochecklxdialog] Error 1make[2]: ***
[menuconfig] Error 2make[1]: *** [sub-make] Error 2make: *** [__sub-make]
Error 2Command failed.Press any key to continue... *
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