diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index e69676d..0dd1be1 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ Build-Depends: bison,
                flex,
                groff,
                libfl-dev,
-               libncurses5-dev,
+               libncurses-dev,
                wamerican,
                wbritish
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