erroneous reference to "ncurses-dev" package on ubuntu wiki page?

Stefan Bader stefan.bader at canonical.com
Wed Jul 7 12:17:09 UTC 2010


On 07/07/2010 12:30 PM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> 
>   here:
> 
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelTeam/GitKernelBuild
> 
>   the reader is told to install (among other things) the package
> "ncurses-dev".  assuming that's to allow the user to eventually run
> "make menuconfig", that's not the package name anymore in lucid, is
> it?
> 
>   wouldn't it be libncurses5-dev?  or something similar?  i can fix
> that if someone wants to verify what the correct package name should
> be.
> 
> rday
> 
Sounds about right for Lucid and maybe some sooner releases. If you update it,
I'd leave in a comment about the old name as it might be like that in Hardy.
Though I have not checked right now.

-Stefan




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