I've been playing around with the 2.2.11 kernel, configuring my sound, and I compiled successfully a couple times. Except the second bzImage froze with weird memory errors when I tried to boot it, which in itself seemed strange to me. So I believe I've got the settings I need now for my sound and I'm about to run make menuconfig again, and suddenly it's broken.
rm -f include/asm ( cd include ; ln -sf asm-i386 asm) make -C scripts/lxdialog all make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux/scripts/lxdialog' gcc -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -DLOCALE -DCURSES_LOC="<curses.h>" -c lxdialog.c -o lxdialog.o In file included from lxdialog.c:22: dialog.h:29: curses.h: No such file or directory make[1]: *** [lxdialog.o] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux/scripts/lxdialog' make: *** [menuconfig] Error 2 So I figured it was curses.h missing. And it indeed doesn't exist on my system. Except I haven't changed anything since compiling those first two times and menuconfig worked then, so that seems strange to me. Could someone give me a definitive yes as to if it is the curses.h file missing causing that error? And if it is, then I've got this situation to pose. I went to debian.org and did a package search for the curses.h file and it seems libncurses4-dev is the package I need. I've basically got a potato system and by nature of conflicts, the libncurses4-dev slink package won't work so I've downloaded the potato version. A lot of times. On the ftp the file is listed as 511408 bytes, and every time I download it I end up with a 511405 byte file. It's the only thing I can think of, with my limited experience, that results in this error when trying to install it: # dpkg -i libncurses4-dev_4.2-3.2.deb (Reading database ... 17235 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking libncurses4-dev (from libncurses4-dev_4.2-3.2.deb) ... dpkg: error processing libncurses4-dev_4.2-3.2.deb (--install): corrupted filesystem tarfile - corrupted package archive dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe) Errors were encountered while processing: libncurses4-dev_4.2-3.2.deb Can someone please help? I promise, last question this weekend, honest :) |cheshire|
