emacs cannot open termcap database file

nancy.yawei.li · 06-11-2014, 06:35 PM

Can anyone help advise what I should do for the below error? I did some googling but didnot get any clue on how to fix this. Thanks.

[root@vmtest51 ~]# emacs
emacs: Cannot open termcap database file

dijetlo · 06-12-2014, 03:02 AM

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[root@vmtest51 ~]# emacs

Initially, I'd suggest you stop running emacs as root.
To tell you anything more, I think we'd have to know what distro you're using (since they implement $TERMCAP differently) and what kind of terminal emacs is coming up in.

nancy.yawei.li · 06-12-2014, 07:14 PM

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Originally Posted by dijetlo

Initially, I'd suggest you stop running emacs as root.
To tell you anything more, I think we'd have to know what distro you're using (since they implement $TERMCAP differently) and what kind of terminal emacs is coming up in.

Thank you for your reply. Does the below information has distro? And I am using Putty to connect.

[root@vmtest51 ~]# lsb_release -a
LSB Version: :base-4.0-amd64:base-4.0-noarch:core-4.0-amd64:core-4.0-noarch:graphics-4.0-amd64:graphics-4.0-noarch

rinting-4.0-amd64

rinting-4.0-noarch
Distributor ID: OracleServer
Description: Oracle Linux Server release 6.4
Release: 6.4
Codename: n/a

dijetlo · 06-12-2014, 08:43 PM

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Distributor ID: OracleServe

It's proprietary. I would suggest you ask Oracle what's to be done about it.