make menuconfig/xconfig problem in ubuntu-9.0.4

Hi

when i want to configure/customise kernel with make menuconfig
in ubuntu-9.0.4 it is giving error regarding cursor up arrow,something
relavent to cursor.

Can anyone faced this problem/aware of this problem ,please suggest me.

Thanks
Alex

You'd better read error messages carefully if you're doing any
development-related work (long before you are thinking about building a
kernel).  Probably it is telling you that the ncurses library is missing. 
Use your distribution's tools to install it.