Re: make menuconfig fails

[Russell Shaw <rjshaw@iprimus.com.au>]

Bob Proulx wrote:
> Russell Shaw wrote:
>
> > In the kernel source, when i do "make menuconfig" i get the error:
>
>
> Common problem.  But most people just have not installed it yet.  You
> look to have a corrupted library or something.

Thanks. It must have got uninstalled when i was fixing broken package problems.

> > /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lncurses
>
>
> Check that you have the following on your system.
>
>   apt-get install libncurses5-dev
>
>   /usr/include/curses.h
>   /usr/lib/libncurses.a
>   /usr/lib/libncurses.so
>
>
> > I think i *have* got ncurses installed, because midnight commander runs, and
> > sudo ldconfig -p:
>
>
> Note that you do not need sudo for 'ldconfig -p'.  It is a read-only
> command.

ldconfig updates /etc/ld.so.cache, so sudo is needed:

russell@main~: ldconfig -p
bash: ldconfig: command not found

russell@main~: sudo ldconfig -p
Password:
362 libs found in cache `/etc/ld.so.cache'
        libzvt.so.2 (libc6) => /usr/lib/libzvt.so.2
        libz.so.1 (libc6) => /usr/lib/libz.so.1
        ...