newbie: TERM=dumb unknown

[Michael Hirmke]

Hi Yves,

>Hello,
>
>I have checked:
>
>/etc/termcap exists and its rights are set to rwrr
>I have executed 'export TERM=linux' (also tried with ansi) and get the same
>answer: TERM=linux unknown
>
>Note that I have no termcap or ncurses executable (and I don't know what they
>are for). 

Neither termcap nor ncurses are excutables !
They both provide databases for terminal descriptions.
Perhaps you should try to install ncurses.

>
>Thanks

Bye.
Michael.
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