Re: LYNX-DEV Error opening terminal?

[T.E.Dickey]

> I haven't built a Linux version in a long time so I figured I would fire
> one off.  I just got lynx2.7.1ac-0.87.tar.gz, unpacked it, ran configure
> and make and it went through all by itself.  Then I did:
> 
> ./lynx 
> Error opening terminal: xterm.
> 
> Do I have a botched (n)curses library somewhere?  A grep for "Error
> opening terminal" in the lynx src shows nothing.  lynx -dump works. 
that message is in ncurses' initscr() function.  I assume it's unable
to find the terminfo description for xterm (e.g., the move after 1.9.9e
from /usr/lib/terminfo to /usr/share/terminfo mentioned in my faq might
be biting you).

The current version of ncurses is 4.1
There's an faq at
        http://www.clark.net/pub/dickey/ncurses/ncurses.faq.html

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Thomas E. Dickey
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