Re: make menuconfig

[David Densmore <dden@rollanet.org>]

Thanks, but I meant what packages are needed for make menuconfig to
function, as in when I enter the command the pretty blue menuconfig
app starts instead of an error message.

In other words, I already have the kernel source installed and can
use the make command, the hard to use one where you go through the
list of questions in a preset order.  What additional deb packages
do I need to install so that make menuconfig will work?  It it just
bin86?  I thought there were others.

I installed all of these a long time ago after finding a page on
the Debian site that told which packages were needed.  Now I need
to set up another system and I can't find that page.

>Quoting David Densmore (dden@rollanet.org):
>> what packages must be installed to use make menuconfig?
>
>A kernel-source package, its dependencies, recommendations, and
>suggestions apart from kernel-package, which I'd heartily
>recommend, and bin86, which is needed only on x86 architectures.
>(i.e. check a kernel-source paragraph in the Packages file.)
>
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