On Jul 12, 2005, at 6:45 PM, Frans Pop wrote:
On Monday 11 July 2005 02:51, Josh wrote:Aptitude works well, but when installing a package after download, and it leaves the ncurses built screen, it doesn't clear the terminal, which creates garbage looking output.That should be solvable, but I'm afraid I don't know how. You could try asking on the debian-sparc or debian-user mail lists.
My guess on this is that the $TERM variable is set to something that's *almost* right. Maybe the number of columns/rows is wrong? the Sun console firmware doesn't emulate anything standard, like a VT1xx.
Rick