Where's menuconfig, gconfig and xconfig?

aquaboot · 04-29-2007, 02:33 AM

Hi All,

Trying my hand at building a new kernel. I'd like to use one of the tools that edits the .config file but cannot find utilities such as xconfig, gconfig or menuconfig on my system. This is a new installation of "testing." I was also surprised to find that gcc was not installed by default. I had to install it myself. As I'm new to Debian, all help is very much appreciated.

Thanks,

ab

lurko · 04-29-2007, 03:35 AM

dunno about menuconfig, "make xconfig" will launch qconf if you have the package libqt3-mt-dev. Might have been a package apt pulled down when I asked for libqt3-mt-dev, I'm not positive.

My wild guesses as to menuconfig and gconfig are this: install libncurses5-dev for menuconfig, and libgtk2.0-dev for gconfig. Like I said though - wild guesses based on experiences with qconf, I've never used gconfig or menuconfig and only mention these as per what I would look at first if I wanted to use one of them.

edit: maybe start with "build-essential" though.

picobyte · 04-29-2007, 03:54 AM

To run such a command, you have to be in a console, as user, in the kernel source directory. 'make xconfig' or 'make gconfig' gives a graphical interface, 'make menuconfig' an ncurses based interface. For the former two you have to work, you have to run a window manager (GNOME/KDE or the like), the latter can be run in the console.

aquaboot · 04-29-2007, 12:55 PM

Thanks for the help guys. I had problems with xconfig and gconfig but menuconfig works just fine.

Cheers,

ab