Re: "termcap-compat" is still referenced in the Debian FAQ
On 2013-06-28 17:39 +0200, Joseph Lenox wrote:
> Noticed that "termcap-compat" is referenced in one of the FAQ
> questions on the website
> (http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-faq/debian-faq.en.txt,
> 4.7). The package does not exist on Wheezy, nor apparently (according
> to the package history) since 2005. I'm unsure whether to file this as
> a bug against the FAQ or the fact that the package is missing.
The former, I dare say.
> If I have a program to which I do not have the source (commercial EDA
> tool) and it requires libtermcap.so.2,
Ugh. How old is that program?
> how do I satisfy this program the Debian Way?
You can get termcap-compat from archive.debian.net[1], but note that the
termcap library in it is linked against libc5 rather than libc6. If
that is not what you need, various RPM-based distributions still ship
libtermcap[2], and you can convert an rpm package into a Debian package
with alien(1).
Good luck,
Sven
1. http://archive.debian.net/sarge/termcap-compat
2. http://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=libtermcap.so.2
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