From owner-freebsd-questions Sun May 14 12: 8: 8 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from midway.uchicago.edu (midway.uchicago.edu [128.135.12.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E26537B60D for ; Sun, 14 May 2000 12:08:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dbsypher@uchicago.edu) Received: from harper.uchicago.edu (root@harper.uchicago.edu [128.135.12.7]) by midway.uchicago.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA12280 for ; Sun, 14 May 2000 14:07:51 -0500 (CDT) Received: from cerberus (broad-208-049.rh.uchicago.edu [128.135.208.49]) by harper.uchicago.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA16330 for ; Sun, 14 May 2000 14:07:51 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <4.2.2.20000514140228.00b93b60@nsit-popmail.uchicago.edu> X-Sender: dbsypher@nsit-popmail.uchicago.edu X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.2 Date: Sun, 14 May 2000 14:07:47 -0600 To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: David Syphers Subject: Re: wordperfect install problem In-Reply-To: <4.2.2.20000512172221.00b94760@nsit-popmail.uchicago.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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