Re: Kernel Compile on Potato

["Harry ten Berge" <harry_tb@hotmail.com>]

> From: "deja luser" <dejaluser@hotmail.com>
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Kernel Compile on Potato
> Date: Fri, 09 Jun 2000 02:54:56 EDT
>
> Tonight I installed frozen on a k6-2 system, and am trying to compile a new
> kernel for it, but make menuconfig fails. I have ncurses installed, and so 
> I
> should be able to run it, but as it says below it dies in
> /usr/src/linux/scripts/lxdialog on the line with:
> #include CURSES_LOC
>
> Below is the actual output, I went through the files mentioned, but nothing
> looks obviously wrong (at least to me). I can make config, but 3 times so
> far I've tried it and have fat-fingered it at some point, usually near the
> end. Now, in the dialog, directory it mentions that that is a non-standard
> version could this be a problem?
>
> Gregg


Nope. Your problem is de header file which is missing. You must install 
'libncurses5-dev'. That will fix the problem.




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