Ubuntu 10.10 under Install Ncurses-devel

Troubleshooting Ubuntu 10.10 When you configure the Linux kernel with ' Make menuconfig ', there is a lack of ' ncurses-devel ' library support.

Unable to find the ncurses libraries or the

Required header files.

' Make Menuconfig ' requires the ncurses libraries.

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Install ncurses (Ncurses-devel) and try again.

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1. Problem status

In general, using the system's own software manager Apt-get can be installed (' sudo apt-get install ncurses-devel '), but after use, the following error message appears:

Reading Package List ... Complete

Analyzing Dependency tree for Package

Reading status information ... Complete

E: Package not found Ncurses-devel

Try another command ' sudo apt-get install ncurses ', which appears:

Reading Package List ... Complete

Analyzing Dependency tree for Package

Reading status information ... Complete

There is no package ncurses available now, but it is referenced by other packages.

This may mean that the missing package may have been discarded,

Or can only be found in other publishing sources

E: Package ncurses not available for installation candidate

2. Workaround

Linux almost every release will have the ' ncurses ' and ' ncurses-devel ' installation package, and then according to the second command above error, "There is no available package ncurses, but it is referenced by other packages." "You can decide that the Ubuntu Software Manager server has been modified. So to Ubuntu package archive (http://packages.ubuntu.com/) search for the presence of the installer, use ' ncurses-devel ' as the keyword search, no results. The search for ' ncurses ' has resulted in a lot of returns. The ' Ncurses-devel ' is named ' Libncurses5-dev ' in Ubuntu based on each of the instructions that return the search results.

# sudo apt-get install Libncurses5-dev (installation process does not prompt for any errors, installation succeeded)

Then try ' make menuconfig ' to enter the kernel configuration normally.

Ubuntu 10.10 under Install Ncurses-devel