cannot find libncurses
Hello
I don't know if this has been asked before, as I searched the list and
found nothing close to this problem but I'm hoping this is the right
forum to ask.
Problem:
I'm trying to upgrade my Kernel from 4.2.20 to 4.2.22. I am doing this
the long way not through Dpkg or apt-get.
When I type 'make menuconfig' I get the following:
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/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/linux-2.4.22/scripts/lxdialog'
make: *** [menuconfig] Error 2
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When I do 'dpkg -l libncurses5' I get:
pi libncurses5 5.3.20030719-1 Shared libraries for terminal
handling
Does this mean that it is installed but has a problem?
If I try to remove using apt-get it wants to remove 248 packages!
Is there a way to solve this like adding a line in some file to point to
the libraries?
Also with the command 'dpkg -S libncurses5' the following is returned:
libncurses5: /usr/share/doc/libncurses5
libncurses5: /usr/share/doc/libncurses5/copyright
libncurses5: /usr/share/doc/libncurses5/README.Debian
libncurses5: /usr/share/doc/libncurses5/changelog.gz
libncurses5: /usr/share/doc/libncurses5/changelog.Debian.gz
libncurses5: /usr/share/doc/libncurses5/FAQ
I did upgrade to 4.2.20 from 4.2.18 successfully but that was before I
installed KDE3. Now that I installed KDE3 this is coming up.
Any help or instructions to just go away would be really appreciated.
Reaz
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