Package Installation Error

Package Installation Error

[Niamathullah sharief]

Dear Friends

When Compilaing kernel.I am getting these result in "make menuconfig"

 Code:

 *** Unable to find the ncurses libraries or the
 *** required header files.
 *** 'make menuconfig' requires the ncurses libraries.
 ***
 *** Install ncurses (ncurses-devel) and try again.
 ***
make[1]: *** [scripts/kconfig/dochecklxdialog] Error 1
make: *** [menuconfig] Error 2

 but when i try to install ncurses i am getting as ncurses is already new
one.
 Code:

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
libncurses5 is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

 Kindly help me...I am having this error for long time.
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Package Installation Error

[Varka Bhadram]

On 09/09/2014 09:20 AM, Niamathullah sharief wrote:
> Dear Friends
>
> When Compilaing kernel.I am getting these result in "make menuconfig"
>
> Code:
>   *** Unable to find the ncurses libraries or the
>   *** required header files.
>   *** 'make menuconfig' requires the ncurses libraries.
>   ***
>   *** Install ncurses (ncurses-devel) and try again.
>   ***
> make[1]: *** [scripts/kconfig/dochecklxdialog] Error 1
> make: *** [menuconfig] Error 2

You need ncurses development package.

try:*sudo apt-get install libncurses5-dev

*

-- 
Regards,
Varka Bhadram.

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Package Installation Error

[Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu]

On Tue, 09 Sep 2014 09:20:42 +0530, Niamathullah sharief said:

>  *** Install ncurses (ncurses-devel) and try again.

>  but when i try to install ncurses i am getting as ncurses is already new
> one.

On many systems, packages are split into two parts - the part needed to run
already-compiled binaries, and the part that is needed to create new binaries
using the libraries.

Did you try taking the hint from the message and installing 'libncurses5-devel'
(or whatever it may be called on your distro)?

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Package Installation Error

[Niamathullah sharief]

for this

when try to install "libncurses5-devel" i am getting these messages




*Reading package lists... DoneBuilding dependency tree       Reading state
information... DoneE: Unable to locate package libncurses5-dev*


On Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 9:38 AM, <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu> wrote:

> On Tue, 09 Sep 2014 09:20:42 +0530, Niamathullah sharief said:
>
> >  *** Install ncurses (ncurses-devel) and try again.
>
> >  but when i try to install ncurses i am getting as ncurses is already new
> > one.
>
> On many systems, packages are split into two parts - the part needed to run
> already-compiled binaries, and the part that is needed to create new
> binaries
> using the libraries.
>
> Did you try taking the hint from the message and installing
> 'libncurses5-devel'
> (or whatever it may be called on your distro)?
>
>
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Package Installation Error

[Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu]

On Tue, 09 Sep 2014 09:52:46 +0530, Niamathullah sharief said:

> when try to install "libncurses5-devel" i am getting these messages

> *Reading package lists... Done

Oh.  apt-get based system. You have my condolences :)

At least on Ubuntu, the appropriate command is:

apt-get install libncurses5-dev
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Package Installation Error

[Greg Donald]

On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 11:22 PM, Niamathullah sharief
<newbiesha@gmail.com> wrote:
> when try to install "libncurses5-devel" i am getting these messages
>
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> E: Unable to locate package libncurses5-dev

You need to find the actual package name for your system:

apt-cache search curses | grep dev


-- 
Greg Donald

Package Installation Error

[Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu]

On Tue, 09 Sep 2014 06:51:28 -0500, Greg Donald said:

> You need to find the actual package name for your system:
>
> apt-cache search curses | grep dev

It's possible he's missing entries in his /etc/apt/sources.list
and/or /etc/apt/sources.d/* or wherever his distro puts such things.

Of course, we're speculating, as he hasn't told us yet if it's Ubuntu
or Debian or Raspian or some hipster distro nobody's ever heard of.

He'd be better off asking a list dedicated to his distro where the ncurses5
development package for his distro is....
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