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terminfo help: adding note about copying .terminfo to /usr/share
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Expand Up @@ -75,7 +75,14 @@ field as an alias` which can be safely ignored.
`/usr/share/terminfo`. This location can be overridden with the `TERMINFO`
environment variable. If `TERMINFO` is not set and `tic` cannot write to
the system location, it will place the results in `$HOME/.terminfo` if it
exists. `man tic` for details.
exists. If the results were placed in `$HOME/.terminfo` it might be a good idea
to copy them to the system database which might help when running `sudo`.
`man tic` for details.

```sh
sudo cp $HOME/.terminfo/x/xterm-ghostty /usr/share/terminfo/x/xterm-ghostty
sudo cp $HOME/.terminfo/g/ghostty /usr/share/terminfo/g/ghostty
```
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