Unable to find Ncurses libararies/Compile Kernel

From: Forest Fisher (fdfisher_at_oberlin.edu)
Date: 01/23/04

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    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 

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