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From: Douglas Anderson <dja@××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] do we have the package "ncurses-devel" or something like that?
Date: Wed, 03 Dec 2008 03:52:30
Message-Id: efeb8d230812021952t2ab5869v3658912664338b28@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] do we have the package "ncurses-devel" or something like that? by Du Zhongdong
1 On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 12:43 PM, Du Zhongdong <axdududu@×××××.com> wrote:
2 >
3 > Hi, all.
4 >
5 > I've setup gentoo on my Vmware, everything's ok.
6 > Now I want to re-check my kernel config,
7 >
8 > #cd /usr/src/linux
9 > [Wed Dec 03, 11:38 AM] axdu@ linux$ make menuconfig
10 > *** Unable to find the ncurses libraries or the
11 > *** required header files.
12 > *** 'make menuconfig' requires the ncurses libraries.
13 > ***
14 > *** Install ncurses (ncurses-devel) and try again.
15 > ***
16 > make[1]: *** [scripts/kconfig/dochecklxdialog] Error 1
17 > make: *** [menuconfig] Error 2
18 >
19 > I try to emerge ncurses-devel but emerge says:
20 > [Wed Dec 03, 11:40 AM] axdu@ linux$ sudo emerge ncurses-devel
21 > Calculating dependencies |
22 > emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy "ncurses-devel".
23 >
24 > what's the problem with ncurses-devel? if there's no such thing in
25 > GENTOO_MIRRORS, where can I download the source?
26 >
27 > thanks in advance
28 >
29
30 That message is a menuconfig error, it's not from gentoo, which is why
31 the name is different. You just need to install sys-libs/ncurses.

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