I don't think there is anything in the standard install which would set TERM to eterm-color. Do you have personal initialization files which override the system TERM? How is Emacs connected to your display and keyboard (Unity, Gnome, bare Linux terminal ...?)
(Tempted to set this to status: "Incomplete" but not able to verify on Ubuntu 13.10 at the moment. If anybody with access to a Saucy image can chime in here, that would be appreciated.) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to emacs24 in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1285864 Title: Missing dependency: emacs does not pull any package providing /usr/share/terminfo/e/eterm-color Status in emacs24 package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: I tried to run dpkg-reconfigure inside emacs' terminal emulator - M-x term. It said: Unknown terminal: eterm-color Check the TERM environment variable. Also make sure that the terminal is defined in the terminfo database. Alternatively, set the TERMCAP environment variable to the desired termcap entry. debconf: whiptail output the above errors, giving up! With Google, I found that '/usr/share/terminfo/e/eterm-color' is provided by ncurses-term. I installed it, solving the problem. So the package emacs24 (I have not checked other emacs versions) should 'recommend' (or at least 'suggest') ncurses-term (or another package that solves the problem. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10 Package: emacs24 24.3+1-1ubuntu3 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-12.32-generic 3.13.4 Uname: Linux 3.13.0-12-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.12.5-0ubuntu2.2 Architecture: amd64 Date: Thu Feb 27 17:46:00 2014 MarkForUpload: True SourcePackage: emacs24 UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to saucy on 2013-11-02 (117 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/emacs24/+bug/1285864/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp