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 -- +-------------------------------------------------------------+ | e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | http://megabaud.fi/~fpolacco/ Join the UKI Linux Project! | | fingerprint 70 1A 72 2D 2B C8 A5 63 7A C2 CC E0 2A 54 AE DA | | finger: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] | +-------------------------------------------------------------+
