Re: Which termcap is right?
On Tue, Jan 04, 2000 at 07:21:03PM +0100, Andreas Bombe wrote:
> 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.
I have that installed but still got the error messages until I
installed termcap-compat (which depends on libc5 -- ugly).
Bob
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