Re: emacs - Cannot open termcap database file

2006-05-12 Thread Kevin Mark
On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 10:47:59AM -0400, Eric Mohler wrote: > 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 aptit

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

Re: emacs - Cannot open termcap database file

2006-05-11 Thread Romain Francoise
"Eric Mohler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Can someone P-L-E-A-S-E point me in a direction that will help me sort > out my termcap problem and get emacs up and running? Install `libncurses5-dev', remove config.cache, re-run configure, and rebuild. But as has been noted before, using Debian's bi

Re: emacs - Cannot open termcap database file

2006-05-11 Thread Björn Gustafsson
Eric, Based on you saying that you're a linux and debian newbie, perhaps you should use the debian binary packages? To install emacs 21.4a-1, just `apt-get install emacs21`. Now if you want the 21.4a-tarball one from gnu.org for a particular reason, that's another story :) Perhaps `apt-get i