terminfo is in different folder than expected

[andys8]

Issue

After cloning the repository and running sudo make install.

Please see the README file regarding the terminfo entry of xst. 6 entries written to /usr/local/share/terminfo

terminfo is copied to /usr/local/share/terminfo. All other terminfo is in /usr/share/terminfo

System

Mint 19.1 tessa, fish, version 3.0.2

Result

<W> fish: Could not set up terminal.
<W> fish: TERM environment variable set to 'xst-256color'.
<W> fish: Check that this terminal type is supported on this system.
<W> fish: Using fallback terminal type 'ansi'.
bind: Key with name “ppage” does not have any mapping
bind: Key with name “npage” does not have any mapping
bind: Key with name “f1” does not have any mapping
bind: Key with name “ppage” does not have any mapping
bind: Key with name “npage” does not have any mapping
bind: Key with name “f1” does not have any mapping
bind: Key with name “ppage” does not have any mapping
bind: Key with name “npage” does not have any mapping
bind: Key with name “f1” does not have any mapping

(not sure if xst-256color or st-256color is the right choice)

But maybe this is expected or a system setting I'm not aware of :)

[DomHudson]

Hi @andys8 , why did you close this? I have the same problem - what is the solution? Did you just alter the Makefile?

Many thanks, Dom

[neeasade]

@DomHudson You should be able to get around this by changing the PREFIX to /usr, ie sudo make PREFIX=/usr install

edit: For context, the error is caused by programs defaulting to an install location of /usr/local (the idea is that packaged programs install to /usr, so unpackaged installs should have a separate location)

[andys8]

I closed this because I wasn't sure if it's my mistake and I started created an st fork myself so I wouldn't really be able to verify fixes or answer follow up questions. So I closed it to avoid bothering maintainers with it. But it wasn't the best idea that I skipped adding an explanation why I closed it.

@neeasade Cool. Maybe it's worth adding these instructions to the README file.

[kpa28-git]

I switched from a different build of st to xst and I couldn't get it to work properly without setting the termname to st-256color. I installed it from the AUR, the PKGBUILD sets the PREFIX to /usr. In my case I don't know where xst-256color (or xst's st-256color) is if it exists. I think ncurses is using an old terminfo file from my previous build of st. Anyone know where to find the terminfo file? My package manager isn't showing it and I couldn't find it in /usr/share/terminfo/x.

Edit: I found out that I didn't have the terminfo files because the PKGBUILD runs make install instead of make clean install. I cloned the repo and ran tic -sx st.info to generate the xst term info files and now it works fine.

[actionless]

PKGBUILD runs make install instead of make clean install

fixed

[kpa28-git]

For some reason terminfo files still aren't generated. I don't know why because the tic call is in the install target in the makefile and I have tic in my path. The readme says to make clean before installing which the PKGBUILD does. Everything works after running sudo tic -sx st.info.

Running st

If you did not install st with make clean install, you must compile the st terminfo entry with the following command:

tic -sx st.info

See the man page for additional details.

EDIT: terminfo files were generated by the PKGBUILD locally at ~/.terminfo/ instead of /usr/share/terminfo/

[actionless]

terminfo files were generated by the PKGBUILD locally at ~/.terminfo/ instead of /usr/share/terminfo/

pkgbuild runs only make commands, so the Makefile should be fixed for that

[kpa28-git]

I tested revision 11, it generates the terminfo files at /usr/share/terminfo. I had to delete existing xst terminfo files I generated with tic at /usr/share/terminfo to install with PKGBUILD.