Sunday, March 1, 2015

Fatal error: curses.h: No such file or directory while configuring Kernel Source

While working on Kernel source, during configuring Kernel options, we  may need to use "make menuconfig" command.

We may end up with following error.

 mrtechpathi@mrtechpathi:~/Study/linux-source/linux-2.6$ make menuconfig  
  HOSTCC scripts/kconfig/mconf.o  
 In file included from scripts/kconfig/mconf.c:23:0:  
 scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/dialog.h:38:20: fatal error: curses.h: No such file or directory  
  #include CURSES_LOC  
           ^  
 compilation terminated.  
 make[1]: *** [scripts/kconfig/mconf.o] Error 1  
 make: *** [menuconfig] Error 2

To overcome this, execute below steps

1. $ sudo apt-get update
2. $ sudo apt-get install libncurses5-dev
3. $ make menuconfig -> Works fine now !!!!

Following are my system configurations.
 No LSB modules are available.  
 Distributor ID:     Ubuntu  
 Description:     Ubuntu 14.04 LTS  
 Release:     14.04  
 Codename:     trusty

Let me know if it worked for you :)
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4 comments:

  1. AnonymousMarch 13, 2015 at 3:01 AM

    yes it works. thanks for the tip

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  2. MrTechpathiApril 8, 2015 at 2:00 PM

    Thanks Ajeya. Glad that it helped you.

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  3. UnknownMay 4, 2015 at 6:51 AM

    Worked for me too, thank you!

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  4. Shubham_KMay 11, 2015 at 10:45 AM

    Thanks a lot..I had been trying different alternatives like make defconfig, make xconfig, etc. But this one helped a lot, solved my issue..Thanks a lot..You're great :-D

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