[gentoo-user] do we have the package "ncurses-devel" or something like that?

[John covici]

on Wednesday 12/03/2008 Du Zhongdong(axdududu@×××××.com) wrote
 > Hi, all.
 > 
 > I've setup  gentoo on my Vmware, everything's ok.
 > Now I want to re-check my kernel config,
 > 
 > #cd /usr/src/linux
 > [Wed Dec 03, 11:38 AM] axdu@ linux$ 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 1
 > make: *** [menuconfig] Error 2
 > 
 > I try to emerge ncurses-devel  but emerge says:
 > [Wed Dec 03, 11:40 AM] axdu@ linux$ sudo emerge ncurses-devel
 > Calculating dependencies |
 > emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy "ncurses-devel".
 > 
 > what's the problem with ncurses-devel?  if there's no such thing in
 > GENTOO_MIRRORS, where can I download the source?

Its named differently -- just ncurses.  You might want to get a
package called eix, where you can do quick searches for packages and
have more fun.

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