Installing Kernel 2.6.20 Problems

[Abenenati]

Hey there.
I want to install the new linux kernel, but I am having some problems.

I download the kernel to my /usr/src/ and extract it there.
Then I:

cd /usr/src/linux-2.6.20/
make menuconfig

Then I get tons of errors, too many to copy and paste in this post, but the last lines are these

make[1]: *** [scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/checklist.o] Error 1
make: *** [menuconfig] Error 2

What is the problem here?

[antidrugue]

Did you install the dependencies first ?

Minimally you need :

apt-get install build-essential libncurses-dev kernel-package bzip2

More details here :
http://technowizah.com/2005/12/debia...l-compile.html

[Abenenati]

Do I need to put anything in /ect/apt/sources.list because it says it cannot find fakeroot.(I'm taking that from your website).

[antidrugue]

Do I need to put anything in /ect/apt/sources.list because it says it cannot find fakeroot.

Well, not really, since fakeroot is part of the main section of the official Debian repository. As long as your /etc/apt/sources.list looks like that you should be ok :

#Local Mirror
deb ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ etch main contrib non-free
#deb-src ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ etch main contrib non-free

#Security
deb http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main contrib non-free
#deb-src http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main contrib non-free

#Multimedia
deb http://debian-multimedia.org/ etch main
#deb-src http://debian-multimedia.org/ etch main

Of course, don't forget to run

apt-get update

afterwards.