Re: Is ncurses incompletely installed because it is missing terminfo?

In reply to: Yuri : "Is ncurses incompletely installed because it is missing terminfo?"
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From: Baptiste Daroussin <bapt_at_FreeBSD.org>
Date: Mon, 03 Oct 2022 15:54:37 UTC

On Sun, Oct 02, 2022 at 12:45:29PM -0700, Yuri wrote:
> On 13.1 STABLE the manpage terminfo(5) says that terminfo should be
> installed in /usr/share/misc/terminfo/*/*.
> 
> But there are no such files.
> 
> Is this manpage outdated or incorrect, or is this part of ncurses missing?

In base we do not provide terminfo db only termcap db

note that in freebsd 14 we still do not provide terminfo db in base however if
installed from ports we do read it (terminfo-db package)

Bapt