Re: [SLUG] 8.04 LTS vs hernel headers

From: Paul M Foster (paulf@quillandmouse.com)
Date: Sun Dec 13 2009 - 01:46:37 EST


On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 09:38:33PM -0500, Eben King wrote:

> OK. I went ahead and installed Ubuntu 8.04 LTS on the laptop. Still trying
> to get the webcam to work. (I got it to work in 9.10 with VLC, but
> apparently 8.04's kernel (2.6.24) doesn't have the right driver.)
>
> So I have the driver here, all I need is the kernel headers so I can compile
> the driver. "uname -r" says 2.6.24-26-generic . So I look in Synaptic and
> see that linux-image-2.6.24-26-generic and linux-headers-2.6.24-26-generic
> are installed. Sounds good. I'm running the installed kernel and I have is
> headers.
>
> Bun, when I try to configure the kernel, the first error I get is
>
> In file included from scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/checklist.c:24:
> scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/dialog.h:32:20: error: curses.h: No such file
> or directory
>
> http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-481180.html (among other sites)
> leads me to believe I need to install headers that match my kernel. What
> gives?

I believe you need to install something like the ncurses-devel library.
This gives the ncurses headers you need if you're doing development work
(which you are, if you're compiling the kernel). Note this is not the
same as the straight ncurses library.

Paul

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