Binary package “ncurses-base” in ubuntu precise

basic terminal type definitions

 The ncurses library routines are a terminal-independent method of
 updating character screens with reasonable optimization.
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 This package contains terminfo data files to support the most common types of
 terminal, including ansi, dumb, linux, rxvt, screen, sun, vt100, vt102, vt220,
 vt52, and xterm.