I'm trying to upgrade from the 2.4.18 kernel that installs with the bf24 flavor to hopefully a 2.6.1 kernel but at the very least, a 2.4.24 kernel. I put the zipped source code (i.e. linux-2.6.1.tar.bz2) into the /usr/src directory, checked to make sure there were no symlinks, and then did:
#tar -xjvf linux-2.6.1.tar.bz2 Then, I used #ln -s linux-2.6.1 linux to create the appropriate symlink to the new directory. Finally, I changed directories to /usr/src/linux/ and tried: #make menuconfig This didn't work with the 2.6.1 source and I didn't understand the errors so I tried the same thing with the 2.4.24 source. This time, it said: rm -f include/asm ( cd include ; ln -sf asm-i386 asm) make -C scripts/lxdialog all make[1]: Entering directory '/usr/src/linux-2.4.24/scripts/lxdialog' /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lncurses collect2: ld returned 1 exit status >> Unable to find Ncurses libraries. >> >> You must have Ncurses installed in order >> to use 'make menuconfig' make[1]: *** [ncurses] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory '/usr/src/linux-2.4.24/scripts/lxdialog; make: *** [menuconfig] Error 2 So then I tried: #apt-get install ncurses and I got: Package ncurses has no available version, but exists in the database. This typically means that the package was mentioned in a dependency and never uploaded, has been obsoleted or is not available with the contents of sources.list E: Package ncurses has no installation candidate So then I searched Debian's webpage and came up with libncurses5. Again, I tried #apt-get intall libncurses5 This time, I got: Sorry, libncureses5 is already the newest version. 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Finally, I ran dselect just to make sure that there was an * next to libncurses5 AND tried #locate ncurses which gave me a whole slew of files including /lib/libncurses.so.5 /lib/libncurses.so.5.2 /usr/doc/libncurses5 and the directory /usr/share/doc/libncurses as well as /var/lib/dpkg/info/libncurses5.list and a series of other /var/lib/dpkg/info/libncurses5.list.* So...clearly ncurses is on my computer, but make menuconfig does not recognize this...can anyone help? Forest -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
