Re: Missing Ncurses?

[Patrick Wiseman <pwiseman@mindspring.com>]

On Sun, 25 Aug 2002, Bob Hilliard wrote:

> make menu-config fails with the following messages:
> 
> bob:vc-/2:kernel-source-2.4.18>sudo make menuconfig
> rm -f include/asm
> ( cd include ; ln -sf asm-i386 asm)
> make -C scripts/lxdialog all
> make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.18/scripts/lxdialog'
> /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lncurses
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> 
> >> Unable to find the Ncurses libraries.
> >>
> >> You must have Ncurses installed in order
> >> to use 'make menuconfig'
> 
> make[1]: *** [ncurses] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.18/scripts/lxdialog'
> make: *** [menuconfig] Error 2
> 
> However, dpkg -l shows the following are installed:
> 
> bob:vc-/2:kernel-source-2.4.18>dpkg -l "*ncurse*"|grep ii
> ii  libncurses4    4.2-10         Shared libraries for terminal handling
> ii  libncurses5    5.2.20020112a- Shared libraries for terminal handling
> ii  ncurses-base   5.2.20020112a- Descriptions of common terminal types
> ii  ncurses-bin    5.2.20020112a- Terminal-related programs and man pages
> ii  ncurses-term   5.2.20020112a- Additional terminal type definitions
> 
> Which `Ncurses libraries' am I missing?

I think you need the ncurses-dev package.

Patrick

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