Russell Shaw wrote: > In the kernel source, when i do "make menuconfig" i get the error:
Common problem. But most people just have not installed it yet. You look to have a corrupted library or something. > /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lncurses Check that you have the following on your system. apt-get install libncurses5-dev /usr/include/curses.h /usr/lib/libncurses.a /usr/lib/libncurses.so > I think i *have* got ncurses installed, because midnight commander runs, and > sudo ldconfig -p: Note that you do not need sudo for 'ldconfig -p'. It is a read-only command. > 342 libs found in cache `/etc/ld.so.cache' > libncurses.so.5 (libc6) => /lib/libncurses.so.5 > locate ncurses: > [...looks reasonable...] > "make menuconfig" used to run ok, so it's something that > happened to the system (2.4.20, gcc-2.95.4, libc6). Perhaps the symlink to the library got corrupted. Try running 'sudo ldconfig -v' (sudo needed there :-) and see if it fixes the problem. You might want to remove and reinstall libncurses5-dev. Bob
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