Re: No terminal capabilities after upgrade
> HELP! I just upgraded to Debian 1.1 from .93. Now whenever I try to
> run anything that requires any terminal capabilities, I get something
> like "xterm: unable to find usable termcap entry", or "Terminal type
> vt100 is unknown". I have ncurses-base-1.9.9e-1,
> ncurses-bin-1.9.9e-1, and ncurses3.0-1.9.9e-1 all successfully
> installed.
I solved my problem, but I still don't know the cause. Re-installing the
above 3 packages restored my terminal capabilities. This is strange
because it had shown that they were all successfully installed before. I
also installed libc4, libc5-dev and ncurses-developer before re-installing
the packages which may have had some effect (but probably not).
> Strangely, I had an /etc/termcap file which belonged to no
> installed package (by running dpkg -S /etc/termcap) on the system.
Still don't know where this termcap file comes from. It's also on my
Debian system at home and also belongs to no installed package.
Gerry
gerry@blue.intele.net
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