无法进行菜单配置

Question

I use Debian 7.4 Wheezy. I trying to upgrade my kernel, but when I type "make menuconfig" it says:

 *** 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 trying to install "libncurses5-dev", but I get the error:

E: Unable to locate package libncurses5-dev

PS

I downloaded and installed the packages manually and now everything is okay! Thanks a lot!!

Answer 1

You should have run (as root)

aptitude update
aptitude search libncurses

that would suggest you the right package name.

Then try

aptitude install libncurses-dev

and

aptitude install kernel-package
aptitude build-dep linux-image linux-image-amd64 

At last, use make-kpkg --initrd binary to compile your kernel. (it will produce *.deb files in the parent directory). You want to configure /etc/kernel-pkg.conf and perhaps /etc/kernel-img.conf

Answer 2

I had the same problem. In my case installation of package libncursesw5-dev solved the issue.

Answer 3

make menuconfig needs ncurses libraries try following command to install ncurses library

sudo apt-get install libncurses5
sudo apt-get install libncurses5-dev

Answer 4

make menuconfig

worked for me after i installed all the libaries, and added myself sudo permission, i was also using this to cross_compile stuff

# Allow members of group sudo to execute any command

%sudo ALL=(ALL:ALL) NOPASSWD:ALL

%b37399 ALL=(ALL:ALL) NOPASSWD:ALL

Answer 5

For Fedora(Red Hat);

$ make menuconfig
#error encountered :
make[1]: *** [scripts/kconfig/Makefile:210: scripts/kconfig/mconf-cfg] Error 1
make: *** [Makefile:588: menuconfig] Error 2
#resolution : 
$ sudo yum install libncurses-dev

Thanks

Answer 6

Depending on the project the menuconfig could be made with the kconfiglib library:

https://pypi.org/project/kconfiglib/

For these projects it's required to:

• Install Python (I tested it with Python2.7, but I think newer Pythons are just fine)
• Install pip (if it's not done with Python)
• And then the pip install kconfiglib

And for some projects, this will fix the error instead of the libcurses package.

Just as example here is one kconfiglib based project which prints the same error, but will not be fixed with libcurse:

https://github.com/polarfire-soc/hart-software-services