Re: cannot find libncurses

[Andreas Janssen <andreas.janssen@bigfoot.com>]

Hello

Reaz Baksh (<baksh5179@rogers.com>) wrote:

> 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:
> --------------------------------
> /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lncurses
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> 
>>> Unable to find the Ncurses libraries.
> [...]
> 
> 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?

You also need to install ncurses-dev to make menuconfig.

best regards
        Andreas Janssen

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