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

[73417 2023 compuserve com]

On 9-25-98 Alex Vorobiev <sasha forum swarthmore edu> wrote:

> the setup program may be reading your TERM environment variable.
> give this a shot:
> 
> TERM=vt100
> export TERM
> 
> - sasha / sasha forum swarthmore edu
> 
Dear Alex:

I have tried your above suggestion of setting the TERM type environment
variable to 'vt100' and exporting it. However, when I then ran the
MicroStation 95 ./setup install program, I got the following error
message:

  Error opening terminal: vt100

Could it be that I need a different version of libncurses.so.xxx to symbol
link libncurses.so.2.0 to?

Thank you.

David Smith

>> 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
>> >> 
>> 
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