"Arto V. Viitanen" wrote: > > Alex Farrell WA15 consultant wrote: > > > > Hi all, > > > > Well, I'm sure *someone* must have seen the error: > > > > Error opening terminal: generic. > > > > when running texconfig. > > > > I make'd teTeX v1.0.7, with the texmf dir correctly identified, and all > > was successful. However, make install fails with the above error when it > > runs texconfig. Any suggestions would be very much appreciated. > > > > Following gives same error message: > > % TERM=generic dialog --yesno "Hello" 3 40 > zsh: can't find termcap info for generic > Error opening terminal: generic. > > If you look at the texconfig, it uses the dialog program > (atleast on Linux and BSD). So, it seems you have not defined > your TERM environment variable. Try xterm or vt100, depending on > what kind of terminal (emulator) you use. Thanks for the tip, but actually TERM was set to "xterm". The problem has now gone away - it turns out that it was simply a matter of downloading tetex-base.tar.gz from a cpan site, rather than using the one specified in the README in the teTeX distribution. Annoying, but at least it works now. Alex. -- Alex Farrell
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