Re: How to confirm ncurses installed properly
On Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 05:14:11AM -0500, Rupert Heesom wrote:
> I'm really new to Debian, trying to set my Debian VM up with NFS to
> access my RH host.
>
> In doing so, I need to configure the kernel for NFS support.
>
> To run "make menuconfig" (I don't have X installed), I need ncurses
> installed. I've just run through dselect & thought I installed ncurses
> along with lots of other stuff from a CD set. But when I run "make
> menuconfig" in /usr/src/linux, I get the following error -
>
> >> Unable to find the ncurses libraries.
> >> You must have ncurses installed.....
Install the libncurses5-dev package. You need development libraries as
well as runtime libraries to compile programs against ncurses, which
happens during 'make menuconfig'.
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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