Re: need Libtermcap.so.2
On Fri, May 15, 1998 at 03:19:01PM -0400, dave oswald wrote:
> need Libtermcap.so.2
Package: termcap-compat
Priority: extra
Section: admin
Installed-Size: 565
Maintainer: Christian Hudon <chrish@debian.org>
Architecture: i386
Version: 1.1.1
Replaces: libtermcap
Depends: libc5 (>= 5.4.0-0)
Conflicts: libtermcap
Filename: dists/frozen/main/binary-i386/admin/termcap-compat_1.1.1.deb
Size: 191930
MD5sum: 34cdacc19f9d700353fd5b2d64687938
Description: Compatibility package for old termcap-based programs.
The termcap-compat package provides the libtermcap.so.2 and /etc/termcap
files which are required to run non-Debian, binary-only termcap-based
programs. Since libc6-based programs are hopefully "modern" enough to be
linked with ncurses (or slang), this package only provides a libc5-based
libtermcap library.
.
You do not need to install this package to run Debian-packaged programs
since Debian GNU/Linux uses terminfo and not termcap. You need this
package if a program (that you cannot recompile) fails to run with
the error message "...: can't load library 'libtermcap.so.2'" or complains
about a missing /etc/termcap file.
.
The termcap-compat package isn't meant to be used to compile programs
therefore it doesn't provide all the necesary files for compilation. If you
want to compile a program that claims to need termcap, why not try
ncurses's termcap emulation instead? It's as simple as linking with ncurses
instead of libtermcap (i.e. replace the '-ltermcap' with '-lncurses' in
the makefile). Ncurses' termcap emulation routines translate terminfo entries
to termcap entries on the fly, so you don't even need an /etc/termcap file.
.
This package provides:
libtermcap.so shared library, version 2.0.8
termcap database, version 9.13.25
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HTH,
Ray
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