Re: Unable to install libncurses5-dev

[Hugo Vanwoerkom <hvw59601@care2.com>]

Abdul Taha wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
>
> I'm trying to install 'libncurses5-dev' as a prerequisite
> for using make menuconfig, which I'm doing to enable
> usb mouse support.
>
> However the install fails due to unmet dependencies I'm not certain
> how to resolve:
>
> # apt-get install kernel-package ncurses-dev fakeroot
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree... Done
> Note, selecting libncurses5-dev instead of ncurses-dev
> Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
> requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
> distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
> or been moved out of Incoming.
> The following information may help to resolve the situation:
>
> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
>  libncurses5-dev: Depends: libncurses5 (= 5.4-4) but 5.4-8 is to be 
> installed
>  E: Broken packages
>
>
> I'm on kernel version 2.4.27-2-686. I would appreciate any suggestions.

make menuconfig or rather the lxdialog dir in the scripts dir of the 
kernel, seems to have trouble with the Debian libncurses5-dev anyway, 
which I never resolved.

Instead I downloaded ncrurses-5.4.tar.gz from 
http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/ncurses/
and added prefix=/usr/local to ./configure
and make and make install.
./configure says he installs default to /usr/include but he does not and 
it will clobber what you got in there.

Then I change /usr/include to /usr/local/include in the Makefile of 
lxdialog in the script dir of the kernel and your troubles are over.



HTH
H