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

On Jan 7, 1:32 pm, dp(dot)(dot)(dot)(at)pgadmin(dot)org (Dave Page) wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 5:52 AM, Gabe Nell <g(dot)(dot)(dot)(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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Hi all. I have the same problem today was to install and create db in
PSQL program in PostgreSQL 9.0.2 (Ubuntu 10.10 (32bit)). I solved it
by using this command: LD_PRELOAD = /lib/libreadline.so.5 ./psql <and
then your data>