RE: cannot find libncurses

["Reaz Baksh" <baksh5179@rogers.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: news [mailto:news@sea.gmane.org] On Behalf Of Andreas Janssen
> Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2003 1:56 PM
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: cannot find libncurses
> 
> Hello
> 
> Reaz Baksh (<baksh5179@rogers.com>) wrote:
> 
> > Problem:
> >
> > I'm trying to upgrade my Kernel from 4.2.20 to 4.2.22.  I am doing
> > this the long way not through Dpkg or apt-get.
> > When I type 'make menuconfig' I get the following:
> > --------------------------------
> > /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lncurses
> > collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> >
> >>> Unable to find the Ncurses libraries.
> > [...]
> >
> > When I do 'dpkg -l libncurses5' I get:
> > pi  libncurses5     5.3.20030719-1  Shared libraries for terminal
> > handling
> >
> > Does this mean that it is installed but has a problem?
> 
> You also need to install ncurses-dev to make menuconfig.
> 
> best regards
>         Andreas Janssen


I tried that also but got the 'unmet dependencies' problem.  Guess if I
can solve that my problems would be solved.

Reaz