[wplug] make menuconfig

Eric C. Cooper ecc at cmu.edu
Thu Feb 20 19:55:13 EST 2003


On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 05:31:36PM -0500, Tom McCullough wrote:
> I am trying my first kernel compile and ran into a snag.  I have Debian 
> 'Woody' with 2.4.18-bf2.4 kernel loaded on a Compaq presario 1655 
> laptop.
> [...]
> I get a message that I can't use menuconfig because libncurses is
> not found.  I checked dselect and found that it was installed and I
> found libncurses.so.5.2 in /lib.  Is there something I am missing?

You're missing the development package for curses:
       apt-get install libncurses5-dev
That contains the .h files needed to compile code (like menuconfig)
that uses curses.  The libncurses5 package contains only the libraries
needed by binaries.

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Eric C. Cooper          e c c @ c m u . e d u



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