RE: lynx-dev Error opening terminal on a Solaris

[Al Cooper]

I built Lynx using the pkgadd from www.sunfreeware.com.  It was a simple
uncompress/pkgadd install.  I do not have ncurses installed, unless it was
packaged with the install program.

Any ideas on how to get the program working?

Al Cooper



-----Original Message-----
From: address@hidden [mailto:address@hidden Behalf Of
Thomas Dickey
Sent: Thursday, August 08, 2002 3:28 PM
To: address@hidden
Subject: Re: lynx-dev Error opening terminal on a Solaris


>
> Good Afternoon,
>
> I just installed Lynx on a new install of Solaris 8.  I hardened Solaris
> with the jassp script (www.jassp.org). The Sparc 5 box has no video card.
>
> When I try and run Lynx from the terminal I get the following error,
"Error
> opening terminal: sun."
> When I try and run Lynx from a telnet session (Linux box), I get the
> following error "Error opening terminal: xterm."

perhaps lynx was built with ncurses, but its terminfo database was not
installed (I've seen this commented on a few times).  You can make it
use Solaris' terminfo set setting the $TERMINFO variable, e.g., to
/usr/share/lib/terminfo

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