I was trying to configure the kernel and I got the following error. Can somebody please tell me what I should do?
root@nitr-desktop:/usr/src/linux# make menuconfig *** 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 3 Answers
Open up your terminal and install libncurses-dev by using this command:
sudo apt-get install libncurses-dev Above problem solved now. all I did was:
sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install ncurses-dev Tested on Ubuntu 17.04
You should install libncurses5-dev and libncursesw5-dev:
apt install libncurses5-dev libncursesw5-dev 
