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Re: ncurses HeLP



Ronneil Camara wrote:
> Thanks.

Welcome.

> Just wondering why you said "on an unstable box"?

My computer is running unstable. The libs may be a different
version on a potato box. <shrug> Either way, it'll be libncurses[n]-dev.
'apt-cache search libncurses' will show you what your options are.

> And also, I am doing the traditional way of compiling the kernel, make menuconfig, make dep clean modules_install bzImage
> 
> Will this work on debian?

Sure thing.

> I actually asked about curses because when I did a make menuconfig, it told me that
> curses.h was not found, then it brought me back to the prompt.

IIRC, make menuconfig compiles the curses interface before you
get the curses menu for choosing your kernel options. Nothing but
source code in the kernel source, no binaries. Hence needing the
header files (curses.h) for make menuconfig.

billy

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Billy Sneed [mailto:billy@billy.org]
> > Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2002 10:03 AM
> > To: Ronneil Camara
> > Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> > Subject: Re: ncurses HeLP
> > 
> > 
> > libncurses5-dev  on an unstable box.
> > 
> > billy
> > 
> > Ronneil Camara wrote:
> > > Hi guys,
> > > 
> > > How are you doing?
> > > 
> > > Anyways, what package should I install so that I will have 
> > curses.h file?
> > > 
> > > Thanks.
> > > 
> > > Neil
> > > 
> > > 
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