diff --git a/main/ncurses/APKBUILD b/main/ncurses/APKBUILD
index b1da826c3bb53e4f791b3a5e9b26ca08322f083d..86a2ea647c7ad65915750fad27ab2c43ce76399d 100644
--- a/main/ncurses/APKBUILD
+++ b/main/ncurses/APKBUILD
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 # Maintainer: Natanael Copa <ncopa@alpinelinux.org>
 pkgname=ncurses
 pkgver=6.0
-pkgrel=4
+pkgrel=5
 pkgdesc="Console display library"
 url="http://www.gnu.org/software/ncurses/"
 arch="all"
@@ -68,6 +68,10 @@ dev() {
 		echo "INPUT(-l${lib}w)" > "$subpkgdir"/usr/lib/lib${lib}.so
 		ln -s ${lib}w.pc "$subpkgdir"/usr/lib/pkgconfig/${lib}.pc
 	done
+
+	# link curses -> ncurses
+	echo "INPUT(-lncursesw)" > "$subpkgdir"/usr/lib/libcursesw.so
+	ln -s libncurses.so "$pkgdir"/usr/lib/libcurses.so
 }
 
 terminfo() {