I used to have a slink system which was running basically just fine, then in a moment of Neanderthal adventurism decided to try to "upgrade" to potato in one fell swoop. Well, I got swooped all right, and have been trying to dig myself out from a hole of unknown depth ever since. I'll spare the boring or exciting (depending on your mood) details, and focus on one very specific remaining problem: I had trouble running debconf in "gtk" mode, so decided to back off and settle for just "text" mode in debconf. But now whenever I do an 'apt-get install whatever', I get the error message
Can't find a valid termcap file at /usr/lib/perl5/5.005/Term/ReadLine.pm line305 What do I need to (re)install to cure this, without (further) breaking my system? Keith