apt-get is not working properly

[Kristofer Hallin]

IIRC the package name is libncurses5-dev. It will be quite hard for you to
do any kernel  development if you can't solve this by yourself.
On 1 Aug 2014 08:01, "Niamathullah sharief" <newbiesha at gmail.com> wrote:

> Actually it is not only my distro problem.
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> I am trying to compile kernel in Ubuntu.
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> I am getting the following error and i am unable to rectify it.
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> *mamse at mamse-ThinkCentre-M80:~/linux-3.15.8$ make menuconfig  *** 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 1make: *** [menuconfig] Error
> 2mamse at mamse-ThinkCentre-M80:~/linux-3.15.8$*
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> On Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 11:19 AM, David kiarie <davidkiarie4 at gmail.com>
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>> In future, ask this distro related questions on the ubuntu forums, or
>> even try google :-)
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>> Looking at your problem it seems that ncurses-devel is not the package
>> name for what you are looking for.
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>> You could try, "apt-cache search ncurses",  from the list, get the
>> name of the package you are looking for.
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>> On Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 8:44 AM, Niamathullah sharief
>> <newbiesha at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Dear Friends
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>> > I am trying to install my ncurses package in my Ubuntu Distro.
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>> > I am getting the following error. But i dont know what is the problem.
>> Can
>> > anyone help me
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>> > Code:
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>> > mamse at mamse-ThinkCentre-M80:~/linux-3.15.8$ sudo apt-get install
>> > ncurses-develReading package lists... Done
>> > Building dependency tree
>> > Reading state information... Done
>> > E: Unable to locate package ncurses-devel
>> > mamse at mamse-ThinkCentre-M80:~/linux-3.15.8$
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