Re: emacs - Cannot open termcap database file

2006-05-12 Thread Eric Mohler
It took a bit to understand the need to add deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main (and its deb-src corollary) to /etc/apt/sources.list in order to access non-local packages. Discovering the power of apt-get and aptitude. I decided to go with the binary for the moment and will compile as

emacs - Cannot open termcap database file

2006-05-11 Thread Eric Mohler
Hi - I'm new to the list and new to debian.I've downloaded an emacs-21.4a tarball from and gnu.org and tried to install on my laptop into /usr/local/bin.  The ./configure yields a number of "failed program" warnings but seemed in general to terminate without incident BUT I see the error " termcap.h