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[Bug 1285864] Re: Missing dependency: emacs does not pull any package providing /usr/share/terminfo/e/eterm-color

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From: era <1285864@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2015 11:10:34 -0000
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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.)

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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)

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