Re: Missing terminfo entries?
Raymond Penners wrote:
>
> Perhaps not ncurses itself, but something is wrong somewhere. Several
> programs such as "vim" (3.0-5), "joe"/"jmacs" (2.8-4) complain about a
> missing termcap entries (e.g. when I set TERM=amiga).
Here we are.
ncurses is termcap compatible but doesn't provide a termcap file.
To get it you have to install termcap-compat package.
a grep on the Contents file is always helpfull :-)
>
> I did not have "termcap-compat" installed, since it mentions:
> [...] You need this
> package if a program [...] complains about a missing /etc/termcap
> file.
This was exactly your case.
But, why those packages requires termcap?
I have checked vim and found that 3.0-5 was linked using -ltermcap
while 3.0-6 uses -lncurses
Grab it from development/binary-i386/editors/vim_3.0-6.deb and install
It works, I have tested it.
For the other packages I don't know, but can imagine a similar problem.
Try first to install the versions that are under unstable (development).
ciao
Fabrizio
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