help with installing lynx

help with installing lynx

[Tennessee Leeuwenburg]

Hi,

I'm trying to install lynx, using the precompiled version from the cygwin 
page, lynx 2.8.2r1.tar.gz. It tells me to go download ncurses, but I 
couldn't find it at the locations mentioned, and I also think I remember 
seeing it in installing cygwin anyway. The errormessage I get is  "Error 
opening terminal: cygwin". What do I need to do to make it work?

-Tennessee


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Re: help with installing lynx

[Charles S. Wilson]

Tennessee Leeuwenburg wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to install lynx, using the precompiled version from the cygwin
> page, lynx 2.8.2r1.tar.gz. It tells me to go download ncurses, but I
> couldn't find it at the locations mentioned, and I also think I remember
> seeing it in installing cygwin anyway.

ncurses was added to the official cygwin distribution a while back -- if
you don't already have it installed, (check /etc/setup/installed.db) use
setup.exe to download & install it.

> The errormessage I get is  "Error
> opening terminal: cygwin". What do I need to do to make it work?

ncurses, probably.  :-)

--Chuck

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Re: help with installing lynx

[Malcolm Boekhoff]

Try "bash>TERM=linux lynx".

Otherwise work out the convoluted set of rules for determining the terminal capabilities (from TERMCAP or from /etc/termcap or from
~/.../somedirectorythatbeginswithadot/...) and post us all a nice easy FAQ item!

----- Original Message -----
From: "Tennessee Leeuwenburg" <t.leeuwenburg@bom.gov.au>
To: <cygwin@sources.redhat.com>
Sent: Monday, February 12, 2001 4:13 AM
Subject: help with installing lynx


> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to install lynx, using the precompiled version from the cygwin
> page, lynx 2.8.2r1.tar.gz. It tells me to go download ncurses, but I
> couldn't find it at the locations mentioned, and I also think I remember
> seeing it in installing cygwin anyway. The errormessage I get is  "Error
> opening terminal: cygwin". What do I need to do to make it work?
>
> -Tennessee
>
>
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RE: help with installing lynx

[Kevin Wright]

Tennessee,

Did you ever get lynx to work? I finally figured out that I had to
set the TERMINFO environment variable:

export TERMINFO=/usr/share/terminfo/

I remembered having to do this for the talk utility until it was fixed.
An strace of lynx shows that it's looking for terminfo in:

/usr/local/share/terminfo/c/cygwin

and since terminfo now ships with cygwin, it's located in
/usr/share/terminfo.

Hope this helps,

--Kevin

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com
> [ mailto:cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com]On Behalf Of Malcolm Boekhoff
> Sent: Monday, February 12, 2001 3:03 AM
> To: Cygwin News Group
> Subject: Re: help with installing lynx
>
>
> Try "bash>TERM=linux lynx".
>
> Otherwise work out the convoluted set of rules for determining
> the terminal capabilities (from TERMCAP or from /etc/termcap or from
> ~/.../somedirectorythatbeginswithadot/...) and post us all a nice
> easy FAQ item!
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Tennessee Leeuwenburg" <t.leeuwenburg@bom.gov.au>
> To: <cygwin@sources.redhat.com>
> Sent: Monday, February 12, 2001 4:13 AM
> Subject: help with installing lynx
>
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm trying to install lynx, using the precompiled version from
> the cygwin
> > page, lynx 2.8.2r1.tar.gz. It tells me to go download ncurses, but I
> > couldn't find it at the locations mentioned, and I also think I remember
> > seeing it in installing cygwin anyway. The errormessage I get is  "Error
> > opening terminal: cygwin". What do I need to do to make it work?
> >
> > -Tennessee
> >
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RE: help with installing lynx

[Sagar R. Shah]

On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, Kevin Wright wrote:
> Did you ever get lynx to work? I finally figured out that I had to
> set the TERMINFO environment variable:
>
> export TERMINFO=/usr/share/terminfo/

Oooh! it works :-)
Thanks for sharing that kevin, I'd tried and given up with getting lynx to
work.

I know that the mailing list archives are serachable, but would there be any
chance of having useful information like this put somewhere more easily
accessible on the cygwin website? (well I suppose I'm actually asking to
have this on the FAQ, but I'm sure the FAQ maintainer is extremely busy with
a million things)

I don't mind puting info like this on my own site and just having a link
from the cygwin site to it, if other people thought this was okay.

Sagar



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Re: help with installing lynx

[Tennessee Leeuwenburg]

>ncurses was added to the official cygwin distribution a while back -- if
>you don't already have it installed, (check /etc/setup/installed.db) use
>setup.exe to download & install it.

Got it. However, it didn't fix the problem, which was :

> > The errormessage I get is  "Error
> > opening terminal: cygwin". What do I need to do to make it work?

Thanks for the pointer though - a useful thing to know.

-T


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