emacs startup problem

[Nicholas Cobb]

to some dude,

i have insatlled gnu emacs on my new debian box. this is the first time 
i have used deabian (i am used to red hat but got sick of it).

i have folloed the installation instructions for emacs and installtation 
appeared to be suuccessful. I have read the relevent troubshooting 
documentation, however i cannot correct the following error which 
appears when i try to start up emacs:

emacs: Cannot open termcap database file

could u plz help

thanks for your time.

Nicholas