Re: Make menuconfig and libncurses-dev
On 28.01.2006, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 28, 2006 at 11:34:33PM -0500, Peter Krummrich wrote:
>> According to the help / module description of the kernel source, I need
>> to install libncurses-dev and tk-dev. However, I did not find these
>> packages in the aptitude list of available packages (list from the Sarge
>> CD set 3.1r1).
>
> try libncurses5-dev. tk-dev is only necessary if you want to 'make
> xconfig' on 2.4, and you'll want tk8.3-dev or tk8.4-dev in that case.
>
On 28.01.2006, Christian Steigies wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 28, 2006 at 11:34:33PM -0500, Peter Krummrich wrote:
<snip>
>> Did these packages drop out of the distribution by mistake or can the
>> required library files for "make menuconfig" now be found in a different
>> package?
>
> cts@chumley:~>wajig install libncurses-dev
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> Note, selecting libncurses5-dev instead of libncurses-dev
>
> cts@chumley:~>wajig install tk-dev
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> Package tk-dev is a virtual package provided by:
> tk8.4-dev 8.4.9-1
> tk8.0-dev 8.0.5-11
> You should explicitly select one to install.
>
> ncurses5 is fine, but you don't need tk for menuconfig???
>
> wajig search (or apt-cache, ap-get, apt-whatever search) is your friend.
>
> Christian
>
Thanks to both of you for these helpful hints. I am glad that there are some
experts on this mailing list.
Maybe it would be a good idea to adapt the kernel source package description
(mention libncurses5-dev instead of libncurses)? Could keep other folks
from stumbling over the same issue as I did. I did a search for
libncurses-dev in aptitude - it did not tell me that libncurses5-dev can
replace libncurses-dev. Next time, I will try wajig...
Best Regards,
Peter
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