Re: Unable to install libncurses5-dev

[Abdul Taha <aktaha@ict4life.org>]

Please keep discussion on-list. Thanks.

Abdul Taha wrote:
>  > Have you done an apt-get update? What's the contents of
> /etc/apt/sources.list?
>
> Yes, done apt-get update. Contents of sources.list:
>
> deb http://debian.blueyonder.co.uk/ stable main
> deb-src http://debian.blueyonder.co.uk/ stable main
> deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main
>
> > sarge & etch have 5.4-4 while sid has 5.4-8, which is making me a bit
> > suspicious of what is inside there. Had you manually installed any
> > ncurses5 deb's previously?
>
> I've not installed any versions of ncurses manually. Only recently
> installed debian in my laptop using the 2.4.27 kernel.

Sorry my mistake with the reply-to.

Yes tried to get install on its own and still got that unmet 
dependencies issue.

#apt-get install libncurses5-dev

"The following packages have unmet dependencies:
libncurses5-dev: Depends: libncurses5 (= 5.4-4) but 5.4-8 is to be 
installed
E: Broken packages"

So I downloaded and installed ncurses from source

wget http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/ncurses/ncurses-5.4.tar.gz

and I was finally able to run 'make menuconfig' without any problems.


thanks,

Ab