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. -- -----------=======-=-======-=========-----------=====------------=-=------ / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' `---=========------=======-------------=-=-----=-===-======-------=--=---'