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Re: Missing terminfo entries?



Raymond Penners writes:
-> Fabrizio Polacco <fpolacco@megabaud.fi> writes:
-> 
-> > > Both TERMCAP and TERMINFO are unset. Setting TERMINFO to
-> > > /usr/lib/terminfo doesn't help either. So, IMHO, the Debian ncurses
-> > > package is broken.
-> > > 
-> > What kind of test did you do to say that? 
-> 
-> 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).
-> 

[ stuff deleted ]

Actually, what you want to install is the ncurses-term package. From
the Packages file: 

Package: ncurses-term
[...]
description: Video terminal manipulation: additional terminal files
 This package contains all of the terminal definitions not found in
 the ncurses-base package.  There are far too many to list here.

The base ncurses package just contains a couple of basic entries which
should be enough for most people.  Since an amiga isn't exaclty a
'standard' linux terminal ( :) ) it's not included in the stripped
down termcap file.  Install ncurses-term and you'll be OK.  But 'most'
people don't really need the full version.

-Larry

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