Re: Missing curses libraries
Martin McCormick wrote:
> I went to modify a kernel build on a system I rebuilt last
>Summer. When I gave the command
>
>make menuconfig
>
>I got the following error message:
>
>/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lncurses
>collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
>
>
>>>Unable to find the Ncurses libraries.
>>>
>>>You must install ncurses-devel in order
>>>to use 'make menuconfig'
>>>
>>>
>
> I used apt-get to try to find a package with that name to no
>avail. I also looked at all the curses libraries in dselect and did
>not find ncurses-devel so I am trying to figure out how I goofed.
>
> The system has no X on it, but I use vt100 applications on it
>all the time with no complaints. It might be that I damaged something
>when restoring from backups after the rebuild. The system works
>amazingly well to be missing something so important.:-)
>
> Thanks for any ideas. It makes me wonder what else isn't
>working because of the missing libraries.
>
>Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK
>OSU Information Technology Division Network Operations Group
>
>
You need the "libncurses5-dev" package.
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Mitch Wiedemann
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