On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 12:22:48AM -0300, xgnu wrote: :Hi all. :2: The kernel version is 2.2.17. I want to compile 2.4.5, but :I have a tar.gz file, not the deb pkg and I had not installed :development tools. Which packages I need to compile the new :kernel?
the package "kernel-package" contains the debian tools for building a kernel, though alot of times I just build by hand, installing this package should pull in the correct dependencies for the build environment. One think I know it usually misses (probably because it's not required only suggested) is libncurses5-dev which you need for "make menuconfig", you can still use "make config" or "make xconfig" to configure the kernel without this though. -Jon
