On 12/09/06, Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray debarshi.ray@gmail.com wrote: I think the curses-devel package is also necessary. Please check if you have that or not. Absolutely correct "sahi javab!" that was the problem. now make menuconfig is working well. and just to make things confirmed I also installed libncurses.deb so that nothing remains. thanks jtd, debarshi and all those who helped. Krishnakant.