Termcap issue Fedora 11

[Brian K. White]

Fairlight wrote:
> You'll never BELIEVE what Brian K. White said here...:
>   
>>>> fp/termcap it was getting from /etc/termcap which no longer exists on 11.
>>>>         
>>> It's quite possible that it's simply not installed by default.  There
>>>   
>>>       
>> Indeed.
>> It's not installed by default on opensuse either for the last several
>> versions.
>>     
>
> I have two OpenSuSE 11.1 systems that beg to differ.  In fact, upon
> looking, they don't date -not- install it, as it's part of terminfo-base.
> I can't imagine them not installing termcap -or- terminfo, ya know? :)
>
> Now -libtermcap- is a different story, and hasn't been installed by default
> since at least SuSE Professional 9, possibly earlier (that's when I first
> migrated, and it wasn't installed by default even then).
>
> But the master termcap file?  Yeah, it's in by default as late as SLES
> 10 and OpenSuSE 11.1.  I won't be recommending anyone continue on with
> Novell's commercial product if I can help it--they've proven useless and
> incompetent too many times now.  So I can't comment on SLES 11 until I've
> seen it, which would involve someone disregarding my advice, or me being
> taken up by someone with a pre-installed version at some point.  But much
> as I'd love to give Novell a good thrashing, I can't imagine even they're
> stupid enough to omit the master termcap file by default.  
>
>   
>> You need to select the termcap package manually is all. No biggie.
>> I'm sure that's all it is with Fedora.
>>     
>
> I'd be prepared to be the same about libtermcap.  But /etc/termcap itself
> being missing is a bit more of a mystery, and strikes me as very odd.
>
> mark->
>   

You're right. /etc/termcap is provided by package terminfo-base, which
is installed by default (my definition of default is the minimal
text-only system, which is the smallest of the several "default" install
options and the one I use to install severs)
You do need to manually add package termcap for libtermcap for filepro
and have for years.
Definitely I've seen a system without /etc/termcap by default though.
Maybe it was ubuntu or maybe some special purpose distro that doesn't
count in a discussion like this.

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bkw