Kitty: Cannot read termcap database

[sbeldekov]

I am not sure if this is an issue or not but I have the following output when 'brew upgrade'.
Other terminals are quiet.

$ brew upgrade
Cannot read termcap database;
using dumb terminal settings.

[kovidgoyal]

Have you changed the value of TERM?

[kovidgoyal]

And what does running the following two comamnd output:

env | grep TERM
infocmp

[sbeldekov]

$ env | grep TERM
COLORTERM=truecolor
TERM=xterm-kitty
TERMINFO=/Applications/kitty.app/Contents/Frameworks/kitty/terminfo

$ infocmp

Reconstructed via infocmp from file: /Applications/kitty.app/Contents/Frameworks/kitty/terminfo/78/xterm-kitty

xterm-kitty|KovIdTTY,
am, ccc, hs, km, mc5i, mir, msgr, npc, xenl,
colors#256, cols#80, it#8, lines#24, pairs#32767,
acsc=++\,\,--..00``aaffgghhiijjkkllmmnnooppqqrrssttuuvvwwxxyyzz{{||}}~~,
bel=^G, bold=\E[1m, cbt=\E[Z, civis=\E[?25l,
clear=\E[H\E[2J, cnorm=\E[?12l\E[?25h, cr=^M,
csr=\E[%i%p1%d;%p2%dr, cub=\E[%p1%dD, cub1=^H,
cud=\E[%p1%dB, cud1=^J, cuf=\E[%p1%dC, cuf1=\E[C,
cup=\E[%i%p1%d;%p2%dH, cuu=\E[%p1%dA, cuu1=\E[A,
cvvis=\E[?12;25h, dch=\E[%p1%dP, dch1=\E[P, dim=\E[2m,
dl=\E[%p1%dM, dl1=\E[M, dsl=\E]2;\007, ech=\E[%p1%dX,
ed=\E[J, el=\E[K, el1=\E[1K, flash=\E[?5h$<100/>\E[?5l,
fsl=^G, home=\E[H, hpa=\E[%i%p1%dG, ht=^I, hts=\EH,
ich=\E[%p1%d@, il=\E[%p1%dL, il1=\E[L, ind=^J,
indn=\E[%p1%dS,
initc=\E]4;%p1%d;rgb\:%p2%{255}%%{1000}%/%2.2X/%p3%{255}%%{1000}%/%2.2X/%p4%{255}%*%{1000}%/%2.2X\E\,
kEND=\E[1;2F, kHOM=\E[1;2H, kLFT=\E[1;2D, kRIT=\E[1;2C,
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kcud1=\EOB, kcuf1=\EOC, kcuu1=\EOA, kdch1=\E[3~, kend=\EOF,
kf1=\EOP, kf10=\E[21~, kf11=\E[23~, kf12=\E[24~, kf2=\EOQ,
kf3=\EOR, kf4=\EOS, kf5=\E[15~, kf6=\E[17~, kf7=\E[18~,
kf8=\E[19~, kf9=\E[20~, khlp=, khome=\EOH, kich1=\E[2~,
kind=\E[1;2B, kmous=\E[M, knp=\E[6~, kpp=\E[5~,
kri=\E[1;2A, kund=, oc=\E]104\007, op=\E[39;49m, rc=\E8,
rev=\E[7m, ri=\EM, rin=\E[%p1%dT, ritm=\E[23m, rmacs=\E(B,
rmam=\E[?7l, rmcup=\E[?1049l, rmir=\E[4l, rmkx=\E[?1l,
rmso=\E[27m, rmul=\E[24m, rs1=\Ec, sc=\E7,
setab=\E[%?%p1%{8}%<%t4%p1%d%e%p1%{16}%<%t10%p1%{8}%-%d%e48;5;%p1%d%;m,
setaf=\E[%?%p1%{8}%<%t3%p1%d%e%p1%{16}%<%t9%p1%{8}%-%d%e38;5;%p1%d%;m,
sgr=%?%p9%t\E(0%e\E(B%;\E[0%?%p6%t;1%;%?%p2%t;4%;%?%p1%p3%|%t;7%;%?%p4%t;5%;%?%p7%t;8%;m,
sgr0=\E(B\E[m, sitm=\E[3m, smacs=\E(0, smam=\E[?7h,
smcup=\E[?1049h, smir=\E[4h, smkx=\E[?1h, smso=\E[7m,
smul=\E[4m, tbc=\E[3g, tsl=\E]2;, vpa=\E[%i%p1%dd,

[kovidgoyal]

According to that, terminfo is accessible, so I have no idea why brew is giving you that message. You'd have to ask it's maintainers, or more properly, the maintainers of whatever terminal UI library it uses.

[kovidgoyal]

Closing, as far as I can see, this is not a bug in kitty.

[MindTooth]

Can this be of any use? Sorry to post to a closed post.
diff.txt

[kovidgoyal]

I dont see what use that would be. kitty is not xterm, it does not and must not have the same terminfo as xterm.

[neverfox]

I just posted about this in #423. What seemed to solve it for me is ln -s /Applications/kitty.app/Contents/Frameworks/kitty/terminfo ~/.terminfo. Perhaps it's worth reporting this as an issue to homebrew, as it doesn't seem to be respecting the environment variables of the user.

[kovidgoyal]

Yeah, as I said in https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/issues/310#issuecomment-363355515 it should be reported to brew or more properly to the maintainers of whatever terminal UI library it uses.

[k010c1232]

I got following error in the latest ver.

Cannot read termcap database;
using dumb terminal settings.

I think that it's because xterm-kitty doesn't exit on my PC.
I can't find xterm-kitty file on my Mac(/usr/share/terminfo/). Where can I get this file?

[kovidgoyal]

env | grep TERMINFO

[k010c1232]

Thank you so much. I confirmed, but the error was shown if TERM is xterm-kitty. Nothing error when I changed TERM to xterm-256color for run brew command.

[zoidbergwill]

@k010c1232 have you tried ln -s /Applications/kitty.app/Contents/Frameworks/kitty/terminfo ~/.terminfo?

[k010c1232]

@k010c1232 have you tried ln -s /Applications/kitty.app/Contents/Frameworks/kitty/terminfo ~/.terminfo?

Thanks @zoidbergwill
I tried, but I can't. Now I'm using Alacritty.

[jacwah]

This was caused by Homebrew clearing $TERMINFO. Fixed upstream: https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/pull/5445.

[MindTooth]

Wicked cool, bro! 🎉

[k010c1232]

This was caused by Homebrew clearing $TERMINFO. Fixed upstream: Homebrew/brew#5445.

Cool! Do you know fixed ver when will release?

[lithammer]

@k010c1232 Homebrew 1.9.0 has been released and includes the fix.

The TERMINFO environment variable is passed through to Homebrew to enable support for some terminal emulators.

https://brew.sh/2019/01/09/homebrew-1.9.0/

[ipstone]

as of 2019-11-01 , this issue seems still existing with my kitty on macosx ...