* John Galt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030627 15:02]: > On Thu, 26 Jun 2003, nori heikkinen wrote: > >on Wed, 25 Jun 2003 03:04:20PM -0500, Nathan Poznick insinuated: > >> Thus spake [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > >> > However, I *do* have libncurses5 installed, as well as every other > >> > packages which matched a search for ncurses on my dselect. My > >> > sources for apt are set as > >> > >> libncurses5-dev > > > >this makes me wonder why make menuconfig doesn't tell you to install > >this particular package! it's completely non-intuitive ... > > Because menuconfig isn't under the control of Debian. it's under the > control of the kernel people.
Right, "install libncurses5-dev" wouldn't make any sense to a RedHat user. Within Debian, the kernel-package and kernel-source packages do Suggests: libncurses-dev, though, which I think is a pretty good clue. good times, Vineet -- http://www.doorstop.net/ -- --Nick Moffitt A: No. Q: Should I include quotations after my reply?
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