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Title: /etc/terminfo for OZ 3.5.1
Post by: jh on September 22, 2004, 06:16:28 pm

Hi folks,

Not sure what the best way of getting this first into OE and then into OZ is, but...

In order to use the micro-emacs app (and maybe other stuff), you'll need an /etc/terminfo directory with some terminfo files.  I've tar'ed up the directory from my OZ 3.3.6p1 image here:

terminfo.tar.gz (http://www.haslup.com/terminfo.tar.gz)

jason

Title: /etc/terminfo for OZ 3.5.1
Post by: Hrw on September 23, 2004, 03:47:34 am

Can you install ncurses-terminfo package and check does it helps?

Title: /etc/terminfo for OZ 3.5.1
Post by: jh on September 23, 2004, 11:02:20 am

Yep, that works... I should have seen that package, duh.  I"ll modify my micro-emacs.oe and submit a patch to add that to DEPENDS.

Thanks!

jason

Title: /etc/terminfo for OZ 3.5.1
Post by: miskinis on August 14, 2005, 10:05:20 pm

Hi,

On an SL5500, with a fresh flash of opie 3.5.3, it seems that installing
ncurses-terminfo works OK, but it hangs during the ipkg-link add.  I
tried the entire procedure twice, with the exact same results.

I was following the steps exactly as (well) documented here:

   http://www.minstrel.org.uk/papers/zaurus/ (http://www.minstrel.org.uk/papers/zaurus/)

I control-C'ed out of the hang, but I'm not sure why this happens, and
would like to be able understand what is going on.  I manually linked the
terminfo directory to point to ram where I have installed things, but I'm
not sure this is a valid workaround.  I notice funny characters in kismet
on the corner of panels.  Maybe this is normal, or maybe my terminfo
is broken.

Anyone know why the ipkg-link fails on ncurses-terminfo?

John