On Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 05:14:11AM -0500, Rupert Heesom wrote: > I'm really new to Debian, trying to set my Debian VM up with NFS to > access my RH host. > > In doing so, I need to configure the kernel for NFS support. > > To run "make menuconfig" (I don't have X installed), I need ncurses > installed. I've just run through dselect & thought I installed ncurses > along with lots of other stuff from a CD set. But when I run "make > menuconfig" in /usr/src/linux, I get the following error - > > >> Unable to find the ncurses libraries. > >> You must have ncurses installed.....
Install the libncurses5-dev package. You need development libraries as well as runtime libraries to compile programs against ncurses, which happens during 'make menuconfig'. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
