On Sat, Jan 28, 2006 at 11:34:33PM -0500, Peter Krummrich wrote: > Hi, > > when trying to configure the source for compiling a customized kernel, I > tried to use "make menuconfig". The process aborted with the error message > that it could not find the required ncurses libraries. > > According to the help / module description of the kernel source, I need to > install libncurses-dev and tk-dev. However, I did not find these packages > in the aptitude list of available packages (list from the Sarge CD set > 3.1r1). > > Did these packages drop out of the distribution by mistake or can the > required library files for "make menuconfig" now be found in a different > package?
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~>wajig install libncurses-dev Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Note, selecting libncurses5-dev instead of libncurses-dev [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~>wajig install tk-dev Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Package tk-dev is a virtual package provided by: tk8.4-dev 8.4.9-1 tk8.0-dev 8.0.5-11 You should explicitly select one to install. ncurses5 is fine, but you don't need tk for menuconfig??? wajig search (or apt-cache, ap-get, apt-whatever search) is your friend. Christian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
