I just installed debian sid and I'm trying to compile a custom kernel but ld cannot find "lncurses". here's the output when I run `make menuconfig`:
...
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lncurses
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

>> Unable to find the Ncurses libraries.
>>
>> You must have Ncurses installed in order
>> to use 'make menuconfig'

make[1]: *** [ncurses] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/linux-2.4.24/scripts/lxdialog'
make: *** [menuconfig] Error 2

my ld.so.conf file reads:
/usr/X11R6/lib
/lib
/usr/lib
/var/lib

I have ncurses installed but I can't figure it out...

-Frankie

What does
ldconfig -v | grep ncurses
say?


Cheers,
Tink

do you have the ncurses-devel libraries installed?

Thanks for the development library suggestion... I ran a simple:
`apt-get install libncurses5-dev`
and everything worked. I love debian.
-Frankie