diff --git a/libsvm.spec b/libsvm.spec
index ed92c48..3c53794 100644
--- a/libsvm.spec
+++ b/libsvm.spec
@@ -60,7 +60,6 @@ estimation (one-class SVM). It supports multi-class classification.
 Summary:        C headers for developing programs with libsvm
 Group:          Development/Libraries/C and C++
 Requires:       libsvm2 = %{version}
-Requires:       ncurses-devel
 
 %description	devel
 This package contains the libraries and header files needed for