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From: Uwe Klosa <uwe.klosa@×××××.se>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] TERM=Eterm unknown now?
Date: Sun, 04 Mar 2007 13:40:35
Message-Id: 45EACB01.9080104@ub.uu.se
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] TERM=Eterm unknown now? by Mark Kirkwood
1 You have to run emerge -av1 ncurses. This fixes the problem.
2
3 Cheers
4 Uwe
5
6 Mark Kirkwood wrote:
7 > I've just run into this after an emerge:
8 >
9 > Using Eterm 0.9.4 from a remote host to my Gentoo box:
10 >
11 > $ clear
12 > 'Eterm': unknown terminal type.
13 >
14 > I can work around this by amending .bash_profile to set TERM to 'xterm'
15 > if it is currently 'Eterm' - but I'm curious as to why or what has
16 > removed 'Eterm' from the termcap database (or similar).
17 >
18 > Cheers
19 >
20 > Mark

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Re: [gentoo-user] TERM=Eterm unknown now? Mark Kirkwood <markir@××××××××××××.nz>