On Thu, Feb 05, at 05:26 Anthony Price wrote: > 05-02-2009 > > Problem after installing vim > > Host system Ubuntu 8.10 > Book 6.4 > Chapter 6.58. Vim-7.2 > > After installing Vim (final command vim -c: 'options' vim appears to be > working fine. > > BUT the shell behaves oddly > > 1. Issuing the command clear does not clear the display; it gives the > error message 'xterm': unknown terminal type > 2. The delete key does not delete but prints the tilde ~ character. > > I have tried reinstalling vim, but this has no effect. > I have tried reinstalling bash but this fails with the message: bison -y > -d ./parse.y > conflicts: 1 shift/reduce > bison: cannot open file `/usr/share/bison/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4': No such > file or directory > make: *** [y.tab.c] Error 1 " > > > If I press on (with my dodgy keyboard) I can set up the scripts in ch 7, > but when I get to the stage of compiling the kernel (ch 8) the make .... > menuconfig command gives the message: 'Error opening terminal: xterm' > > I had this problem with a previous attempt at building LFS and (because > I wasn't too sure about the build as a whole, I scrapped it and started > again). This time everything *appeared* to be ok until the problems that > I have outlined appeared after the installation of vim. > > I would appreciate some guidance on this as I don't really want to > rebuild the whole thing a third time. >
Xterm termcap description is missing. Probably a careful re-installation of ncurses will solve this. > Anthony. Regards, Ag. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
