On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 02:10:44PM -0400, Jonathan M. Slivko wrote:
> I just installed my Red Hat 8.0 system last night and wanted to upgrade
> the kernel to my own custom kernel and when I tried to do a "make
> menuconfig", it said that gcc wasn't found and that I needed ncurses to
> be installed in order for the menu program to function. However, upon
> doing an rpm -q ncurses, I found out that it was installed, however GCC
> was not installed. Can I just safely grab the gcc rpm from rpmfind.net
> for 8.0, install it and be good to go, or is there another step(s) that
> I have to do in order to get it to work. Any help would be appreciated.
> I look forward to your responses. Thanks.
If you can't find the gcc package in the distribution, you should think
about whether you really want to compile your kernel ;-)
You'll also need a ncurses-devel package.
Mirek
