When compiling the kernel in ubuntu16.04, an error occurs using make menuconfig, saying that ncurses-devel is not installed.
Install the library using apt install ncurses-devel command, no, then use apt install ncurses, still no library.
It is possible that the library name has changed in the new ubuntu version, so what has the name changed? ? ?
It can be determined that the Ubuntu Software Manager server has been modified. So go to the Ubuntu Package archive ( http://packages.ubuntu.com/ ) to search for the existence of the installation package, and use 'ncurses-devel' as the keyword to search, but there is no result. A search for 'ncurses' turned up a lot of results. According to the description of each returned search result, it can be found that 'ncurses-devel' is named after 'libncurses5-dev' in Ubuntu.
So install apt install libncurses5-dev
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