Date: Sun, 14 May 2000 14:07:47 -0600 From: David Syphers <dbsypher@uchicago.edu> To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: wordperfect install problem Message-ID: <4.2.2.20000514140228.00b93b60@nsit-popmail.uchicago.edu> In-Reply-To: <4.2.2.20000512172221.00b94760@nsit-popmail.uchicago.edu>
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At 08:19 PM 5/12/00 -0600, David Syphers wrote: >When I try to make WordPerfect in the ports, it fails with the error >"invalid environment variable TERM=cons25" and asks me to change >TERM. I'm not sure what to do, since this was on a fresh install (of the >May 11 -STABLE) and I haven't changed anything in the >environment. Ideas? Thanks, Okay, I figured it out and thought that I should reply to myself so that this gets in the archives (as far as I can tell, this info isn't there, and I'm sure I'm not the only one to ever do this). What I figured out empirically: TERM stands for "terminal" and tells what type of display you're using. "cons25" means that I was using a 25-line console. What WP wants is "TERM=xterm", which will automatically be the case when you're in XWindows. So the point is install WP from XWindows, and not from a text console. -David To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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