Bug 15308 – said i needed program when program is already installed

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Infrastructure

[Description Bryon 2003-02-08 02:17:57 UTC]

i trited to compile the kernel with make menuconfig but I was told that I 
needed Ncurses so I emerged it but still I was given the same response to 
install it when it is already intalled.

bab@lappy linux-2.4.20 $ su
Password:
root@lappy linux-2.4.20 # make menuconfig
rm -f include/asm
( cd include ; ln -sf asm-i386 asm)
make -C scripts/lxdialog all
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.20/scripts/lxdialog'
/bin/sh: line 1: gcc: command not found

>> Unable to find the Ncurses libraries.
>>
>> You must have Ncurses installed in order
>> to use 'make menuconfig'

make[1]: *** [ncurses] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.20/scripts/lxdialog'
make: *** [menuconfig] Error 2
root@lappy linux-2.4.20 # emerge -s ncurses
Searching...
[ Results for search key : ncurses ]
[ Applications found : 1 ]

*  sys-libs/ncurses
      Latest version available: 5.3-r1
      Latest version installed: 5.3-r1
      Size of downloaded files: 2,019 kB
      Homepage:    http://www.gnu.org/software/ncurses/ncurses.html
      Description: Linux console display library

root@lappy linux-2.4.20 #

[Comment 1 Seemant Kulleen (RETIRED) 2003-02-09 04:19:08 UTC]

your problem is not an ncurses one. I need you to do this please:

qpkg -I -v -nc gcc

and paste the output here

[Comment 2 Seemant Kulleen (RETIRED) 2003-02-11 03:44:48 UTC]

byron?

[Comment 3 Seemant Kulleen (RETIRED) 2003-02-12 06:52:45 UTC]

please reopen when you're ready to provide more info about this.

[Comment 4 John Davis (zhen) (RETIRED) 2003-04-04 01:22:28 UTC]

db fix

[Comment 5 John Davis (zhen) (RETIRED) 2003-04-04 01:27:21 UTC]

db fix