Re: BUG #5807: psql fails to launch with "Cannot read termcap database; using dumb terminal settings. Aborted"

From: Gabe Nell <gabe(at)kikini(dot)com>
To: Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org>
Cc: 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: 2011-01-06 20:54:38
Message-ID: AANLkTimg-vFedsK7Cx-Ugfr_4cmYWsNs=EgXJH61JYiU@mail.gmail.com
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> There was a change in 9.0.2 to use libedit instead of readline for
> this (readline is GPL, which is not acceptable to some people who wish
> to use Postgres in other products). One of my colleagues has tested
> the issue reported and confirmed that installing the OS's termcap
> package should solve the problem.

Ubuntu doesn't seem to use termcap, an apt-cache search for termcap
turns up nothing relevant. I did some searching and the closest
suggestion I could find was to install libncurses5-dev, but this
didn't help. Can you suggest that the appropriate package to install
on Ubuntu?

Thanks!

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