Re: You must have Ncurses installed in order to use 'make menuconfig'
On Wed, 25 Jun 2003 15:49:12 -0300
breno.moiana@partekforest.com wrote:
> Greetings!
> I am trying to recompile my kernel on a freshly installed machine, and got
> into a problem: when I try to go for 'make manuconfig', here's what
> happens:
>
> ---
> hermes:/usr/src/linux# 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'
You need libncurses5-dev
More generally, here's a tutorial on The Debian Way to manage kernels:
http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net/system/kernel-pkg.html
Kevin
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