Hi, Having used Debian for my whole GNU/Linux life, I've noticed that fresh installs of late don't have the kernel compilation tools I'd expect.
Most notably binutils and libncurses-dev seem to be missing even after I apt-get the kernel-source (I don't expect Debian to be psychic and know about my trips to kernel.org). This has happend on all the systems I've installed from 2.2r0 and 2.2.r2 CDROMs (>=6 I've tried compiling kernels on) The package clearly states correct Depends: [EMAIL PROTECTED] bin]$ apt-cache showpkg kernel-source-2.2.18 Package: kernel-source-2.2.18 Versions: 2.2.18-1(/var/state/apt/lists/http.us.debian.org_debian_dists_unstable_main_binary-i386_Packages), Reverse Depends: kernel-patch-2.2.18-reiserfs,kernel-source-2.2.18 kernel-patch-2.2.18-openwall,kernel-source-2.2.18 Dependencies: 2.2.18-1 - binutils (0 (null)) bzip2 (0 (null)) fileutils (2 4.0) libncurses-dev (16 (null)) ncurses-dev (0 (null)) task-tcltk-dev (0 (null)) kernel-package (0 (null)) bin86 (0 (null)) libc-dev (0 (null)) gcc (0 (null)) make (0 (null)) Provides: 2.2.18-1 - kernel-source Reverse Provides: Anyone else having similar issues? or have I started consistently doing something wrong? note machines installed with Debian 2.0 and upgraded over time have never had this problem. -Jon