Philipp Schulte wrote: > > Hello, > I just wanted to get a new kernel for my Debian-Potato. I downloaded > 2.2.16 and wanted to configure it but menuconfig aborts with this > message: > > nepomuk:/usr/src/linux# make menuconfig > rm -f include/asm > ( cd include ; ln -sf asm-i386 asm) > make -C scripts/lxdialog all > make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux/scripts/lxdialog' > gcc -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -DLOCALE > -DCURSES_LOC="<curses.h>" -c -o lxdialog.o lxdialog.c > In file included from lxdialog.c:22: > dialog.h:29: curses.h: No such file or directory > make[1]: *** [lxdialog.o] Error 1 > make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux/scripts/lxdialog' > make: *** [menuconfig] Error 2 > nepomuk:/usr/src/linux# > > It seems like "curses.h" is misssing. Does anyone know why this > happens and how it can be solved? > Thanks a lot, > Phil
I did a "dpkg -S curses.h" and it looks like on my Slink system the file is in "libncurses4-dev" I would install that. hth, kent
