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

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Wed, 7 Jul 2010, Stefan Bader wrote:

> 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.

  i think only lucid, i'll verify that and update that page.

> 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.

  i'll do it.  and, victory is mine!  i have a hot, new ubuntu kernel
booting off of my LVM-based root filesystem and (as i mentioned
before), i've documented what worked for me here:

http://crashcourse.ca/introduction-linux-kernel-programming/intermission-building-new-ubuntu-1004-kernel-free-lesson

onward...

rday


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