Hi,

On Mon, 4 Jul 2005, Kurt Wall wrote:

> --- a/scripts/lxdialog/Makefile       2005-07-04 09:54:44.000000000 -0400
> +++ b/scripts/lxdialog/Makefile       2005-07-04 11:50:00.000000000 -0400
> @@ -35,8 +35,11 @@
>               echo -e "\007" ;\
>               echo ">> Unable to find the Ncurses libraries." ;\
>               echo ">>" ;\
> -             echo ">> You must install ncurses-devel in order" ;\
> -             echo ">> to use 'make menuconfig'" ;\
> +             echo ">> You must install ncurses development libraries" ;\
> +             echo ">> to use 'make menuconfig'. If you have an RPM-based" ;\
> +             echo ">> distribution you should install the ncurses-devel" ;\
> +             echo ">> Debian users will probably want to install the
> +             echo ">> libncurses5-dev package." ;\
>               echo ;\
>               exit 1 ;\
>       fi

I would prefer if we don't mention special distributions or version 
numbers and just mentioned a few common package names.
On Debian libncurses-dev or ncurses-dev works as well and so is better 
than libncurses5-dev.

bye, Roman
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