also sprach ben <benfoley@rcn.com> [2002.01.19.0149 +0100]: > On Friday 18 January 2002 04:32 pm, seg wrote: > > Just reinstalled a Debian/GNU system. I didn't install X, has it wouldn't > > load up correctly and didn't it. Without X, to compile a new kernel I am > > forced to use make menuconfig. Which supposedly requires the package > > ncurses-dev. Using Debian's apt-get utility I tried to install ncurses-dev. > > It returns an error, which I should I have noted, in brief in states that > > ncurses is out of date and that I can only install libncurses6-dev (which > > replaced it). So I did. When I tried to make menuconfig, it returned an > > error saing it could not find the ncurses libraries. > > What can I do? I tried using apt-get to install X, but I can't seem to find > > the right package name. > > Any help would be greatly appreciated. > > you can also use make config for the kernel compilation. do you do so regularly? it's a "bitch" i find. my menuconfig works btw and links against libncurses.so.5 btw, which is included in libncurses5-dev. that's the 2.4.17 kernel. try it. -- martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.) \____ echo mailto: !#^."<*>"|tr "<*> mailto:"; net@madduck in africa some of the native tribes have a custom of beating the ground with clubs and uttering spine chilling cries. anthropologists call this a form of primitive self-expression. in america they call it golf.
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