which ubuntu package contains tputs

Harry Putnam reader at newsguy.com
Wed Sep 30 14:39:27 UTC 2020


Robert Heller <heller at deepsoft.com> writes:

> At Tue, 29 Sep 2020 20:42:53 -0400 "Ubuntu user technical support, not
> for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:
>
>> 
>> anyone know which ubuntu pkg contains tputs  Google hasn't been too
>> helpful.
>> 
>> Its needed to compile emacs from source
>
> libncurses5-dev is what I needed to compile Jasspa MicroEmacs from source on a
> Raspberry Pi -- and libncurses5-dev contains /usr/include/term.h, which is
> where tputs is defined...
>
> curses / ncurses is the low-level tty cursor hacking library, commonly used by 
> editors and such, using termcap for a terminal type lookup. 

Thanks for the input, somehow I got it sorted without libncurses5-dev,
not sure what I did as I tried several things.

At any rate, I installed libncurses5-dev anyway, after the fact.





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