Why Cannot open termcap databases file?

Why Cannot open termcap databases file?

[Charles]

After I compiled emacs with "make bootstrap", I tryied to start emacs,
but I got
the following message: "Cannot open termcap databases file". I think I
have termcap
correctly installed because I can successfully "man termcap".
What should I do to solve this problem?
Must I configure with option "--prefix=/usr"?

Re: Why Cannot open termcap databases file?

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 02.01.2006 um 02:45 schrieb Charles:

> Must I configure with option "--prefix=/usr"?
>

No. I think should equip your system with ncurses.

termcap is a bit old.

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Re: Why Cannot open termcap databases file?

[彭畅]

Thank you. But I think that I also have ncurses installed.

2006/1/2, Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@web.de>:
>
> Am 02.01.2006 um 02:45 schrieb Charles:
>
> > Must I configure with option "--prefix=/usr"?
> >
>
> No. I think should equip your system with ncurses.
>
> termcap is a bit old.
>
> --
> Greetings
>
>    Pete
>
> Got Mole problems?
> Call Avogadro 6.02 x 10^23
>
>


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Re: Why Cannot open termcap databases file?

[Stefan Monnier]

> After I compiled emacs with "make bootstrap", I tryied to start emacs, but
> I got the following message: "Cannot open termcap databases file".  I think
> I have termcap correctly installed because I can successfully "man
> termcap".  What should I do to solve this problem?  Must I configure with
> option "--prefix=/usr"?

Please read carefully INSTALL.CVS, then send a description of your problem
to emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org with as much info as possible.
Check also etc/PROBLEMS to see if your problem is similar to a known one.


        Stefan

Re: Why Cannot open termcap databases file?

[Chong Yidong]

"Charles" <chp516@gmail.com> writes:

> After I compiled emacs with "make bootstrap", I tryied to start emacs,
> but I got
> the following message: "Cannot open termcap databases file". I think I
> have termcap
> correctly installed because I can successfully "man termcap".
> What should I do to solve this problem?
> Must I configure with option "--prefix=/usr"?

Install libncurses5-dev (or its equivalent) and compile again.

Re: Why Cannot open termcap databases file?

[Peter Djalaliev]

I am having the same problem with Emacs under Ubuntu Linux.  When I
tried installing the libncurses5-dev package through apt-get, it said
that the package is obsolete or not available.  I already have the most
recent version of the libncurses5 package.

However, I am still getting the error about emacs not being able to
open the termcap database file.

I saw some messages to forums onlnie about converting between termcap
and terminfo files.  What are they, which one do I need?

Re: Why Cannot open termcap databases file?

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 14.01.2006 um 21:51 schrieb Peter Djalaliev:

> I saw some messages to forums onlnie about converting between termcap
> and terminfo files.  What are they, which one do I need?

termcap is the system coming from BSD. terminfo is SysV, its files  
can be found in /usr/share/terminfo. The termcap entries are ASCII,  
terminfo is binary, compiled. tic, tack, toe, captoinfo, infotocap  
are binaries from terminfo. You can try an 'apropos terminfo' ...

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Re: Why Cannot open termcap databases file?

[Chong Yidong]

"Peter Djalaliev" <peter.djalaliev@gmail.com> writes:

> I am having the same problem with Emacs under Ubuntu Linux.  When I
> tried installing the libncurses5-dev package through apt-get, it said
> that the package is obsolete or not available.

Maybe there's a problem with your sources.list file.  You can find
libncurses5-dev at

http://packages.ubuntu.com/breezy/libdevel/libncurses5-dev