On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 07:11:58AM +0100, Ulrich Hansmair wrote:
> hi debian-freaks,
> 
> currently I installed potato with downloaded install-disks. Then I got me a
> few tiny things like less, .... with apt-get. I´ m not very experienced with
> linux, but it worked fine.
> 
> Now I wanna compile me a kernel. So I got me all the needed packages 
> (gcc,...).
> As I wanna use "make menuconfig" I tried to install the package 
> libncurses4-dev
> (with dpkg -i). This resulted in a dependency error with package libc6-dev.
> This dependency problem exists also the other way round.
> 
> What I m doing wrong? Even the --force-depends option of dpkg brought no
> solution. Can anybody give me a hint?

Install both at once if you are using dpkg (dpkg -i foo.deb bar.deb ...).
Or better yet, continue to use apt-get.

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