Re: Help! Problem Installing the Academic MicroStation 95 for Linux

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Peter Chen <peter mds com sg> replied:

> Try
> 
> TERMINFO=/usr/lib/terminfo
> export TERMINFO
> 
> If it works, you can put it in /etc/profile.
> 
> Regards
> Peter

Peter, my RedHat Linux 5.1 file system does not have a '/usr/lib/terminfo'
subdirectory. Instead the 'terminfo' directory is under the '/usr/share'
directory, i.e. 'usr/share/terminfo'. Anyway, I used the syntax as:

TERMINFO="/usr/share/terminfo"
export TERMINFO

in the '/etc/profile', saved it and exit and re-login as root user. Then I
cd /mnt/cdrom/asuite95/ms95/linux and tried to execute the ./setup program.
However, it still gave me an 'Error opening terminal: linux' message. Do
you have any more ideas or suggestions that I can try?

Thank you,

David Smith

On 9-22-98 73417 2023 compuserve com wrote:
>> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> Earlier this year I purchased the Bentley Academic MicroStation 95
>> Mechanical Engineering CAD software package to use with RedHat Linux
>> 5.0 kernel 2.0.33 for the Intel platform. I had MicroStation 95
>> installed and running on the RedHat Linux 5.0 with kernel 2.0.33.
>> However, over the summer I had some hardware failures and I had to
>> upgrade to RedHat Linux 5.1 with kernel 2.0.35 to support the
>> replacement hardware that I now have. I had to reinstall most
>> of my application software in Linux and I am having a problem
>> reinstalling MicroStation 95 for Linux in RedHat Linux 5.1. At first
>> when I attempted to run the ./setup program from the
>> '/mnt/cdrom/asuite95/ms95/linux' directory of the MicroStation 95
>> cdrom, it said:
>> 
>>   ./setup: Can't load library 'libncurses.so.2.0'
>> 
>> and it aborted back to the Linux Superuser prompt. So I remembered
>> what I did the last time I had this problem, which was to find the
>> current version of libncurses.so.x.x and symbol linked a new
>> filename, called libncurses.so.2.0 to it and that solved the
>> problem. However, when I did this with RedHat 5.1 with kernel
>> 2.0.35, I now get a error message, which says:
>> 
>>    Segmentation fault
>> 
>> when I tried to run ./setup from the '/mnt/cdrom/asuite95/ms95/linux'
>> directory.
>> 
>> However, last week I solved the Segmentation fault problem by
>> upgrading the ncurses shared library to the current
>> libncurses.so.1.9.9e from the RedHat Manhattan ftp web site. However,
>> now I am getting an 'Error opening terminal: linux' when I try to
>> run ./setup from the text mode of Linux or 'Error opening terminal:
>> xterm' when trying to run the ./setup from XFree86.
>> 
>> I was wondering if anyone had a problem like this with an application
>> program for Linux that requires 'libncurses.so.2.0' to run with RedHat
>> Linux 5.1 with kernel 2.0.35? How did you remedy it to make it work?
>> Do you have any ideas or suggestions that I can try?
>> 
>> Thank you,
>> 
>> David Smith
>>