Debian bug report logs - #841
dselect from dpkg 0.93.34 says "error opening terminal: console."

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From: iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk (Ian Jackson)
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Subject: Re: Bug#841: dselect from dpkg 0.93.34 says "error opening terminal:  console."
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Bill Mitchell writes:
> PACKAGE: dpkg
> VERSION: 0.93r4
> 
> dselect won't start up.  It complains of "error opening terminal",
> nomatter what I set TERM to.  Other programs which use /etc/termcap
> (e.g., git) work OK.

Bruce, can that message be improved, perhaps to mention that it's
trying to use terminfo ?  Since it's a Debian ncurses package you
could even say to install the `ncurses-runtime' package.  Something
like:

 Terminal type `bbc-phx' is not defined in the terminfo database.
 Please (re)set your TERM variable, or install terminfo data for this
 terminal.  Most terminfos can be found in the `ncurses-runtime' package.

Ian.

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Subject: Re:  Bug#841: dselect from dpkg 0.93.34 says "error opening
    terminal:  console."

Install ncurses-runtime. This will be fixed in the next base.
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Subject: dselect from dpkg 0.93.34 says "error opening terminal:  console."


PACKAGE:  dpkg
VERSION:  0.93r4

dselect won't start up.  It complains of "error opening terminal",
nomatter what I set TERM to.  Other programs which use /etc/termcap
(e.g., git) work OK.