Agathoklis D. Hatzimanikas wrote: > On Thu, Feb 05, at 05:26 Anthony Price wrote: > >> 05-02-2009 >> >> Problem after installing vim >> >> Host system Ubuntu 8.10 >> Book 6.4 >> Chapter 6.58. Vim-7.2 >> >> After installing Vim (final command vim -c: 'options' vim appears to be >> working fine. >> >> BUT the shell behaves oddly >> >> 1. Issuing the command clear does not clear the display; it gives the >> error message 'xterm': unknown terminal type >> 2. The delete key does not delete but prints the tilde ~ character. >> >> I have tried reinstalling vim, but this has no effect. >> I have tried reinstalling bash but this fails with the message: bison -y >> -d ./parse.y >> conflicts: 1 shift/reduce >> bison: cannot open file `/usr/share/bison/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4': No such >> file or directory >> make: *** [y.tab.c] Error 1 " >> >> >> If I press on (with my dodgy keyboard) I can set up the scripts in ch 7, >> but when I get to the stage of compiling the kernel (ch 8) the make .... >> menuconfig command gives the message: 'Error opening terminal: xterm' >> >> I had this problem with a previous attempt at building LFS and (because >> I wasn't too sure about the build as a whole, I scrapped it and started >> again). This time everything *appeared* to be ok until the problems that >> I have outlined appeared after the installation of vim. >> >> I would appreciate some guidance on this as I don't really want to >> rebuild the whole thing a third time. >> >> > > Xterm termcap description is missing. > Probably a careful re-installation of ncurses will solve this. > > >> Anthony. >> > > Regards, > Ag. > That worked. I went on to compile the kernel which *nearly* boots - but that's another problem for another day. Thanks for your help.
Regards, Anthony. I now have a bootable LFS system!! AP. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
