Re: Unable to find Ncurses libararies/Compile Kernel

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

Hello

Forest Fisher (<fdfisher@oberlin.edu>) wrote:

> [trying to compile a Kernel]
>
> rm -f include/asm
> ( cd include ; ln -sf asm-i386 asm)
> make -C scripts/lxdialog all
> make[1]: Entering directory '/usr/src/linux-2.4.24/scripts/lxdialog'
> /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lncurses
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> 
>>> Unable to find Ncurses libraries.
>>>
>>> You must have Ncurses installed in order
>>> to use 'make menuconfig'

You need libncurses5 and libncurses5-dev. You could have found that
information in the archive or on groups.google.com, if you had looked
for it.

best regards
        Andreas Janssen

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