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Re: make menuconfig says I don't have ncurses



On Wed, 2003-06-04 at 23:25, Roberto Sanchez wrote:
>  --- Seneca <seneca-cunningham@rogers.com> escribió:
> > On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 05:25:01AM +0200, Roberto Sanchez wrote:
> > > 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'
> > [...]
> 
> > You need to install libncurses5-dev.
> > 
> 
> Does that not make the error message a bit misleading?  Shoudn't it say
> "You must have Ncurses _development_files_ installed in order...."?

But that would take away the joy of frustrating helpless newbies!

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