<p dir="ltr">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.</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On 1 Aug 2014 08:01, "Niamathullah sharief" <<a href="mailto:newbiesha@gmail.com">newbiesha@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr"><div>Actually it is not only my distro problem.<br><br>I am trying to compile kernel in Ubuntu.<br><br></div>I am getting the following error and i am unable to rectify it.<br><b><br>mamse@mamse-ThinkCentre-M80:~/linux-3.15.8$ make menuconfig<br>
*** Unable to find the ncurses libraries or the<br> *** required header files.<br> *** 'make menuconfig' requires the ncurses libraries.<br> *** <br> *** Install ncurses (ncurses-devel) and try again.<br> *** <br>
make[1]: *** [scripts/kconfig/dochecklxdialog] Error 1<br>make: *** [menuconfig] Error 2<br>mamse@mamse-ThinkCentre-M80:~/linux-3.15.8$</b><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 11:19 AM, David kiarie <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:davidkiarie4@gmail.com" target="_blank">davidkiarie4@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">In future, ask this distro related questions on the ubuntu forums, or<br>
even try google :-)<br>
<br>
Looking at your problem it seems that ncurses-devel is not the package<br>
name for what you are looking for.<br>
<br>
You could try, "apt-cache search ncurses", from the list, get the<br>
name of the package you are looking for.<br>
<div><div><br>
On Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 8:44 AM, Niamathullah sharief<br>
<<a href="mailto:newbiesha@gmail.com" target="_blank">newbiesha@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Dear Friends<br>
><br>
> I am trying to install my ncurses package in my Ubuntu Distro.<br>
><br>
> I am getting the following error. But i dont know what is the problem. Can<br>
> anyone help me<br>
><br>
> Code:<br>
><br>
> mamse@mamse-ThinkCentre-M80:~/linux-3.15.8$ sudo apt-get install<br>
> ncurses-develReading package lists... Done<br>
> Building dependency tree<br>
> Reading state information... Done<br>
> E: Unable to locate package ncurses-devel<br>
> mamse@mamse-ThinkCentre-M80:~/linux-3.15.8$<br>
><br>
><br>
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