Re: RE: cannot find libncurses

[Reaz Baksh <baksh5179@rogers.com>]

> 
> From: Andreas Janssen <andreas.janssen@bigfoot.com>
> Date: 2003/09/30 Tue PM 03:56:49 EDT
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: 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
> 

I am using Woody, when I run 'uname -a' I get the following:

Linux CR2416178-A 2.4.20 #2 SMP Sat May 31 22:39:43 EDT 2003 i686 unknown unknown GNU/Linux

I dont think I've done anything to make it a 'mixed system' although I dont even know how to do that.  As for using any backports I dont think so unless I loaded a modified program somewhere. 

Thanks so much for the help
Reaz