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CaeriTech

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Registered: 2021-07-12

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tput: unknown terminal "linux"

Until recently (perhaps before upgrading to mkinitcpio 36) tput worked in one on my kernel hooks.  However, I now get the error below:

tput: unknown terminal "linux"

I had always added the terminal files to /etc/mkinitcpio.conf:

FILES=(/usr/lib/terminfo/l/linux ...

and likewise have the TERMINFO variable set in the hook:

export TERMINFO=/usr/lib/terminfo/

Do the changes to  mkinitcpio 36 require I do something else to have tput function as before?

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seth

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Re: tput: unknown terminal "linux"

ncurses got updated around the same time, but I'd first check whether the terminfo made it into the initramfs

lsinitcpio /boot/initramfs-linux.img | grep linux # adjust the initramfs name

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loqs

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Registered: 2014-03-06

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Re: tput: unknown terminal "linux"

ncurses got updated around the same time

https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/ … 4986153f49

CaeriTech

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Re: tput: unknown terminal "linux"

ncurses got updated around the same time

https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/ … 4986153f49

Well that's a bummer.

Does that mean I have no choice but to hard-code the screen width and colour codes or is there some other mechanism to determine these codes on the fly?

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