Re: need help compiling kernel: problems with make menuconfig
On Friday 18 January 2002 04:32 pm, seg wrote: Just reinstalled a Debian/GNU system. I didn't install X, has it wouldn't load up correctly and didn't it. Without X, to compile a new kernel I am forced to use make menuconfig. Which supposedly requires the package ncurses-dev. Using Debian's apt-get utility I tried to install ncurses-dev. It returns an error, which I should I have noted, in brief in states that ncurses is out of date and that I can only install libncurses6-dev (which replaced it). So I did. When I tried to make menuconfig, it returned an error saing it could not find the ncurses libraries. What can I do? I tried using apt-get to install X, but I can't seem to find the right package name. Any help would be greatly appreciated. you can also use make config for the kernel compilation.
Re: need help compiling kernel: problems with make menuconfig
also sprach ben [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2002.01.19.0149 +0100]: On Friday 18 January 2002 04:32 pm, seg wrote: Just reinstalled a Debian/GNU system. I didn't install X, has it wouldn't load up correctly and didn't it. Without X, to compile a new kernel I am forced to use make menuconfig. Which supposedly requires the package ncurses-dev. Using Debian's apt-get utility I tried to install ncurses-dev. It returns an error, which I should I have noted, in brief in states that ncurses is out of date and that I can only install libncurses6-dev (which replaced it). So I did. When I tried to make menuconfig, it returned an error saing it could not find the ncurses libraries. What can I do? I tried using apt-get to install X, but I can't seem to find the right package name. Any help would be greatly appreciated. you can also use make config for the kernel compilation. do you do so regularly? it's a bitch i find. my menuconfig works btw and links against libncurses.so.5 btw, which is included in libncurses5-dev. that's the 2.4.17 kernel. try it. -- martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.) \ echo mailto: !#^.*|tr * mailto:; [EMAIL PROTECTED] in africa some of the native tribes have a custom of beating the ground with clubs and uttering spine chilling cries. anthropologists call this a form of primitive self-expression. in america they call it golf. pgpgImLFqOTeC.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: need help compiling kernel: problems with make menuconfig
On Friday 18 January 2002 05:22 pm, martin f krafft wrote: also sprach ben [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2002.01.19.0149 +0100]: [snip] you can also use make config for the kernel compilation. do you do so regularly? it's a bitch i find. nope, but i would if i had no other choice.
Re: need help compiling kernel: problems with make menuconfig
On Fri, 18 Jan 2002, seg wrote: Just reinstalled a Debian/GNU system. I didn't install X, has it wouldn't load up correctly and didn't it. Without X, to compile a new kernel I am forced to use make menuconfig. Which supposedly requires the package ncurses-dev. Using Debian's apt-get utility I tried to install ncurses-dev. It returns an error, which I should I have noted, in brief in states that ncurses is out of date and that I can only install libncurses6-dev (which replaced it). So I did. When I tried to make menuconfig, it returned an error saing it could not find the ncurses libraries. What can I do? I tried using apt-get to install X, but I can't seem to find the right package name. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I think you need both libncurses5-dev and libncurses5. The first to compile menuconfig, the second so that the configuration program can actually link to something. Simon
