topic Re: Pine generating terminal database error in Operating System - HP-UX

Pine generating terminal database error

Matt Hearn — Tue, 30 Nov 2004 14:46:45 GMT

Howdy folks! I downloaded the depot for "pine," the mail browser, from hpux.cs.utah.edu, and installed it with no errors.

However, when I try to run it, I get the following error:

bede:/root> pine
Can't open terminal capabilities database.
bede:/root>

Anybody have any thoughts? I'm running pine on 11i on an old D310.

Re: Pine generating terminal database error

Pete Randall — Tue, 30 Nov 2004 14:54:44 GMT

Matt,

Did you check on all the dependencies? It needs "bison db flex gcc gettext libiconv m4 make openssl perl".

Pete

Re: Pine generating terminal database error

Matt Hearn — Tue, 30 Nov 2004 15:10:56 GMT

I finally found a page on the itrc that explains the issue; I had to
export TERMCAP=/usr/share/lib/termcap

And then set my TERM to vt100. Fixed it!

Re: Pine generating terminal database error

A. Clay Stephenson — Tue, 30 Nov 2004 15:15:02 GMT

I think that if you download and install ncurses from the Porting Centre you will be fixed. If memory serves, the Gnu stuff expects the terminfo database to be under /usr/local/lib/terminfo rather than the more standard /usr/lib/terminfo.

You might try this before loading ncurses:
export TERMINFO=/usr/lib/terminfo
now try executing pine