Make Menuconfig Problem

["Thomas H. George" <georgeacct@spininternet.com>]

I sent this message two days ago but missed any answers as I had not 
subscribed to debian-user@lists.debian.com. 

I am recovering from a disk crash and installed linux2.2.17 from an 
official binary-i386, version 2.2_r0 CD set.  I rushed and missed the 
option which would have included parport in the installation.  My plan 
to correct this was to download linux-2.2.19.tar.bz2 and build a new 
kernel.  All went well until make menuconfig.  This aborted with the 
message:

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

I have run apt-get update and apt-get --fix-broken dist-upgrade.

I have checked required versions of the packages listed in the Changes 
file and obtained all the necessary updates.

I still cannot run make menuconfig.

How do I correct this problem?