"Could NOT find Curses" error when installing MySQL from source
The clue is in the error message (which I also encountered today):


install the correct Curses library. If you're on Debian/Ubuntu then install libncurses5-dev ( use sudo apt-get install libncurses5-dev )
then remove CMakeCache.txt and rerun cmake. i.e. just do rm -f CMakeCache.txt.
Re-run cmake .