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RE: cannot find libncurses



Hello

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

>>From: J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) [mailto:fsmla@xinara.org]
> 
>>On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 13:45:38 -0400, Reaz Baksh wrote:
>>> When I type 'make menuconfig' I get the following:
>>> --------------------------------
>>> /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lncurses
>>> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> 
>>You need to have the ncurses development files installed;
>>"apt-get install libncurses5-dev" should do that for you.
> 
> I tried that but I get:
> 
> Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies:
>   libncurses5-dev: Depends: libncurses5 (= 5.2.20020112a-7) but
> 5.3.20030719-1 is to be installed
> E: Sorry, broken packages

What version of Debian are you using? 5.2.2002112a-7 is the ncurses
version from Woody, the other is not. Do you run a mixed system or are
you using any backports?

best regards
        Andreas Janssen

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