| From: | Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org> |
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| To: | Gabe Nell <gabe(at)kikini(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Dharmendra Goyal <dharmendra(dot)goyal(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: BUG #5807: psql fails to launch with "Cannot read termcap database; using dumb terminal settings. Aborted" |
| Date: | 2011-01-07 10:32:13 |
| Message-ID: | AANLkTim6MmMrie1=na=SNH4YRVFThmDq-B1P_cLd=MCQ@mail.gmail.com |
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On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 5:52 AM, Gabe Nell <gabe(at)kikini(dot)com> wrote:
>> If you install libtermcap then it will start working good. We have
>> tested it at our end.
>
> Thanks Dharmendra, however in Ubuntu there is no package called
> libtermcap, though it has been suggested that the libncurses5-dev
> package provides this [1]. However I tried this and I still get the
> same error. Do you know the exact Ubuntu package that I need to
> install?
Apparently my colleague downloaded and installed a tarball of GNU
termcap 1.3.1.
I'm still not clear how this passed our internal testing though; I'm
guessing the QA test VMs do have some package on them which includes
termcap. Continuing the investigation...
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