Re: Kernel Compile on Potato

[Andrew Sullivan <sullivana@bpl.on.ca>]

On Fri, Jun 09, 2000 at 02:54:56AM -0400, deja luser wrote:
> 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 

[. . .]

> In file included from lxdialog.c:22:
> dialog.h:29: curses.h: No such file or directory
               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

You don't have the developer's files installed.  You need the header files
for curses, as well as the binaries.  Try installing the package
libncurses5-dev.  (This is a problem for may different programs, BTW, and
you can often solve it by appending -dev to the package name.)

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