From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Nicholas Cobb Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: emacs startup problem Date: Thu, 05 Jun 2003 02:41:48 +1000 Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <3EDE214C.5010708@student.anu.edu.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1054746303 26364 80.91.224.249 (4 Jun 2003 17:05:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2003 17:05:03 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jun 04 19:05:00 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19NbZe-00069O-00 for ; Wed, 04 Jun 2003 18:57:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19Nba7-000554-Bv for gnu-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 04 Jun 2003 12:57:47 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.20) id 19NbYj-0004Hw-To for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Jun 2003 12:56:21 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.20) id 19NbUb-0002iU-ND for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Jun 2003 12:52:08 -0400 Original-Received: from anumail5.anu.edu.au ([150.203.2.45] helo=anu.edu.au) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19NbKx-0006ty-Pa for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Jun 2003 12:42:08 -0400 Original-Received: from anumail.anu.edu.au (anumail.anu.edu.au [150.203.2.90]) by anu.edu.au (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h54Gg2q5016180 for ; Thu, 5 Jun 2003 02:42:02 +1000 (EST) Original-Received: from student.anu.edu.au (brucehall233.anu.edu.au [150.203.115.233]) by anumail.anu.edu.au (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h54Gg0iv002749 for ; Thu, 5 Jun 2003 02:42:02 +1000 (EST) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-To: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Sender: u3363379@student.anu.edu.au X-Sender-Domain: student.anu.edu.au X-Spam-Score: (0.4) X-Spam-Tests: FROM_ENDS_IN_NUMS,SPAM_PHRASE_02_03,USER_AGENT,USER_AGENT_MOZILLA_UA,X_ACCEPT_LANG X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.29 (www . roaringpenguin . com / mimedefang) X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:5232 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.bugs:5232 to some dude, i have insatlled gnu emacs on my new debian box. this is the first time i have used deabian (i am used to red hat but got sick of it). i have folloed the installation instructions for emacs and installtation appeared to be suuccessful. I have read the relevent troubshooting documentation, however i cannot correct the following error which appears when i try to start up emacs: emacs: Cannot open termcap database file could u plz help thanks for your time. Nicholas