Re: You must have Ncurses installed in order to use 'make menuconfig'
on Wed, 25 Jun 2003 03:49:12PM -0300, breno.moiana@partekforest.com insinuated:
> 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'
>
> make[1]: *** [ncurses] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.18/scripts/lxdialog'
> make: *** [menuconfig] Error 2
> hermes:/usr/src/linux#
> ---
>
> However, I *do* have libncurses5 installed, as well as every other packages
> which matched a search for ncurses on my dselect. My sources for apt are set as
> the 7 binary CDs, and the ftp.us.debian.org site.
>
> I've googled for it, and searched the debian-user lists' archive, and found
> nothing useful there, except for one page which refers to SUSE, and said:
>
> [quote]
> The include files for ncurses are located in the package "ncurses-devel".
> The kernel requires specifically /usr/include/ncurses.h.
> [/quote]
>
> Even then, I cannot find the ncurses-devel package in dselect, nor on debian's
> FTP site.
> If it's not the ncurses-devel package that is missing, what could it be?
i just ran into this problem, and solved it by apt-getting
libncurses5-dev. i think that might be the ncurses-devl package
you're being referref to, or at least a later version of it. not sure
-- but try downloading it, and then running make menuconfig again.
hth,
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