ncurses wasn't installed -> no tput/clear/reset commands
John Summerfield
debian at herakles.homelinux.org
Fri Oct 31 02:16:47 UTC 2008
Chuck Anderson wrote:
> Apparently nothing in the default install set requires ncurses, so
> that leaves the system missing the commands "tput", "clear" and
> "reset", the first of which at least is used by the default login
> scripts:
>
> #grep -r tput /etc/profile*
> /etc/profile.d/colorls.csh: if ( "`tput colors`" == "256" ) then
> /etc/profile.d/colorls.sh: [ "x`tput colors 2>/dev/null`" =
> "x256" ] && \
>
> I get an error when I open a new shell with tcsh:
>
> tput: Command not found.
>
> I guess the provider of /etc/profile.d/colorls.* (coreutils) should
> Requires: ncurses? Or should this be put into comps?
>
> "clear" and "reset" are such a basic commands I'd expect them to
> always be there. My .logout has had "clear" in it for more than 10
> years...
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=469277
>
bash should require it, the file below is part of the bash package.
11:13 [summer at numbat ~]$ rpm -qf /etc/skel/.bash_logout
bash-3.1-16.1
11:16 [summer at numbat ~]$
Possibly, mingetty too, it clears the screen.
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