Re: make menuconfig says I don't have ncurses
On Thu, 5 Jun 2003 05:25:01 +0200 (CEST)
Roberto Sanchez <rcsanchez97@yahoo.es> wrote:
>
> I tried executing 'make menuconfig; in my kernel (2.4.20) source
> directory on my Woody box and received this error:
>
> make[1]: Entering directory
> `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.20/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-2.4.20/scripts/lxdialog' make: *** [menuconfig]
> Error 2
>
> However, 'locate ncurses' show this at the top of the list:
>
> /lib/libncurses.so.5
> /lib/libncurses.so.5.2
>
> and 'apt-show-versions |grep ncurses' shows this:
>
> ncurses-term/stable uptodate 5.2.20020112a-7
> ncurses-bin/stable uptodate 5.2.20020112a-7
> libncurses5/stable uptodate 5.2.20020112a-7
> ncurses-base/stable uptodate 5.2.20020112a-7
>
> Any ideas on what is going on here?
Yeah. Take a look at:
http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net/system/kernel-pkg.html
section 2.2. It's the *development* library package that you
need, I think.
-c
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