Re: making a new kernel

[Jaume Guasch <jaume.guasch@psi.ch>]

Hi,


Bret Comstock Waldow <bwaldow@alum.mit.edu> writes:

> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to upgrade to a recent kernel, and I'm running into an odd
> problem.
> 
> When I try to run 'make xconfig' I receive this output:
> 
> 
[...]
> 
> When I try 'make menuconfig' I receive this output:
> 
[...]
> However, dselect says ncurses-bin is indeed installed.  Can anyone
> suggest what I might fix or do to correct this?
> 
> Thanks,
> Bret
> 
> 
> 

others answered correctly, but did you read the description for
kernel-source-2.4.20 ? 

in dselect, aptitude, apt-cache, web page, whatever:
http://packages.debian.org/kernel-source-2.4.20 

"You may configure the kernel to your setup by typing "make config" and
following instructions, but you could get ncursesX.X-dev and tkX.X-dev
and try "make menuconfig" for a jazzier, and easier to use
interface. Also, please read the detailed documentation in the file
/usr/share/doc/kernel-source-2.4.20/README.headers.gz." 

So just reading the description of the package puts you in the correct
way... 

Is NOT that you have to dig on documentation to find it.

Best regards,

Jaume

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