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It's the same in redhat, or any other Linux Based OS. You need bin86
On Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 10:34:21AM -0600, Peter A. Peterson II thus spat:
| Quoting Stephen Boulet:
| > When I first installed debian and tried recompiling the kernel, I
| > couldn't run make menuconfig because I didn't have libncurses
| > (libncurses wasn't there after I did apt-get install kernel-source).
| >
| > Looking at the debian package listing web page, I see that it is a
| > recommended package for kernel-source, but not required. Is there
| > any way to apt-get recommended packages when downloading a package
| > you want?
|
| I don't know. I'll look into it. Although another quick note about
| kernel compilation under Debian -- you also need to install the bin86
| package -- why that isn't a dependency, I don't know.
|
| Peter
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