Debian Packaging System and libncurses5-dev

[Benjamin Pharr]

I needed to install libncurses5-dev, but it wasn't on the CD and my NIC 
still isn't working in Linux.  (It's a NetGear FA311 if anyone has 
experience with it.)  I switched into Win98, downloaded it, and went back 
into Linux.  I copied the .deb file into /root/ and ran

dpkg -A libncurses5-dev-yadayada.deb
It said the information for package libncurses5-dev had been read from the 
file.  Then I did a

apt-get install libncurses5-dev

It said the package couldn't be found.

Any advice?  Thanks in advance!

Ben Pharr