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Re: Which termcap is right?



On Sun, Jan 02, 2000 at 09:47:11PM -0500, Joe Drew wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 02, 2000 at 07:12:54PM -0700, Nate Duehr wrote:
> > Bob, 
> > 
> > I'm seeing this on both of my potato system also now.  :(
> > 
> > On Sun, Jan 02, 2000 at 07:14:28PM -0500, Bob Hilliard wrote:
> > >      I just upgraded my potato box from a mirror I updated Friday,
> > > 12/31.  During installation, mailcrypt, ssh, debconf, and gnuplot
> > > reported:
> > > > Cannot find termcap: Can't find a valid termcap file at /usr/lib/perl5/
> > > > 5.005/Term/ReadLine.pm line 305
> > > 
> > >      Line 305 of /usr/lib/perl5/ 5.005/Term/ReadLine.pm is:
> > > 
> > >   $terminal = Tgetent Term::Cap ({OSPEED => 9600}); # Avoid warning.
> > > 
> > >      I also have /usr/lib/perl5/5.005/termcap.pl, which is a much
> > > shorter file.
> 
> I think I recall getting an error along these lines. I installed
> termcap-compat and they went away. Oddly enough.
> Anyways, I hope that helps.

Installing libterm-readline-gnu-perl as in debconf Suggests: is
apparantly sufficient.

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