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Re: Cannot open termcap database file for emacs?


From: Henrik Enberg
Subject: Re: Cannot open termcap database file for emacs?
Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2005 02:14:37 +0200 (CEST)

> From: "Erik the Red" <the.g.man.x@gmail.com>
> Date: 30 Jul 2005 10:48:31 -0700
> 
> I'm using Ubuntu Hoary. I tried to install emacs via source.
> 
> emacs is definitely installed because a man page comes up when I type
> "man emacs".
> 
> However, if I try to run emacs, it gives me this error message in bash:
> 
> emacs: Cannot open termcap database file

"apt-get install libncurses5-dev" and then recompile Emacs.

Or run emacs inside screen




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