libc6-dev versus libncurses4-dev

[Ulrich Hansmair <ulrich@hansmair.m.uunet.de>]

hi debian-freaks,

currently I installed potato with downloaded install-disks. Then I got me a
few tiny things like less, .... with apt-get. I´ m not very experienced with
linux, but it worked fine.

Now I wanna compile me a kernel. So I got me all the needed packages (gcc,...).
As I wanna use "make menuconfig" I tried to install the package libncurses4-dev
(with dpkg -i). This resulted in a dependency error with package libc6-dev.
This dependency problem exists also the other way round.

What I m doing wrong? Even the --force-depends option of dpkg brought no
solution. Can anybody give me a hint?

regards

uli