Hi. On this thread, TRUST MANOJ ! Any others' problems are mostly user issues.
On Sat, Jun 22, 2002 at 09:38:57AM -0400, Matthew Daubenspeck wrote: > Sorry to pick up this conversation midstream, but all this talk of > kernel upgrades got me wondering, and I decided to try it for myself. > > I have downloaded the sources and uncompressed them where they should > be. I made the link (if I should or not, this is how I have always > done it otherwise) and have tried make menuconfig. "downloaded" from Debian archive, I think. Kernel source in Debian are usually patched to be more compatible with what we do (initrd etc.). > I keep getting errors about not having ncurses installed. I searched > with apt-get and have tried to install anything that even mentions > ncurses, but I still get the same error. Install as follows: # apt-get update # apt-get install binutils bzip2 fileutils libc6-dev gcc make # apt-get install libncurses5-dev kernel-package You sounds like you need header file of ncurses. libncurses5-dev could be libncurses4-dev instead. libc-dev and libncurses-dev are virtual package. Next time you wonder dependency, run next command and pick all in Depends, Recommends, and Suggests. $ apt-cache show kernel-source-2.4.18 Package: kernel-source-2.4.18 Priority: optional Section: devel Installed-Size: 23432 Maintainer: Herbert Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Architecture: all Version: 2.4.18-5 Provides: kernel-source, kernel-source-2.4 Depends: binutils, bzip2, fileutils (>= 4.0) Recommends: libc-dev, gcc, make Suggests: libncurses-dev | ncurses-dev, kernel-package Filename: pool/main/k/kernel-source-2.4.18/kernel-source-2.4.18_2.4.18-5_all.deb Size: 23881186 MD5sum: 853b0644f07d7b1a6285a80fb05d1ddf Description: Linux kernel source for version 2.4.18 This package provides the source code for the Linux kernel version 2.4.18. . You may configure the kernel to your setup by typing "make config" and following instructions, but you could get ncursesX.X-dev and tkX.X-dev and try "make menuconfig" for a jazzier, and easier to use interface. Also, please read the detailed documentation in the file /usr/share/doc/kernel-source-2.4.18/README.headers.gz. . If you wish to use this package to create a custom Linux kernel, then it is suggested that you investigate the package kernel-package, which has been designed to ease the task of creating kernel image packages. -- ~\^o^/~~~ ~\^.^/~~~ ~\^*^/~~~ ~\^_^/~~~ ~\^+^/~~~ ~\^:^/~~~ ~\^v^/~~~ +++++ Osamu Aoki @ Cupertino CA USA See "User's Guide": http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/users-guide/ See "Debian reference": http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ "Debian reference" Project at: http://qref.sf.net I welcome your constructive criticisms and corrections. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
