Error Running 'proupdt' on OE 10.2B Linux

Posted by Jeff Ledbetter on 06-Mar-2017 09:18

Hi.

Trying to update 10.2B license information and receiving the following:

** Error in TERM definition in PROTERMCAP

Has anyone encountered this before? We've successfully used proupdt in the past so I'm not sure what we've broken..

Thx.

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Posted by Scott Dulecki on 06-Mar-2017 09:26

Jeff,
 
Check your TERM type and look at that entry in PROTERMCAP.  Maybe there’s something funky there…
 
Scott
 
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Posted by Tom Cattigan on 06-Mar-2017 09:22

Try setting your TERM to xterm before running the proupdt - 

export TERM=xterm 



Posted by Jeff Ledbetter on 06-Mar-2017 09:25

That is the current value of $TERM.

Posted by Scott Dulecki on 06-Mar-2017 09:26

Jeff,
 
Check your TERM type and look at that entry in PROTERMCAP.  Maybe there’s something funky there…
 
Scott
 
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Scott M. Dulecki                   MPUG 16 Feb
Progress                          WMPUG 16 Feb
616/481-4313                    MWUG 19-21 Mar
sdulecki@progress.com                 SEUG TBD
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Posted by Tom Cattigan on 06-Mar-2017 09:30

Make sure your environment is set up correctly (what is the OS?) on unix proupdt is just a shell script:


Posted by Tom Cattigan on 06-Mar-2017 09:32

Sorry accidentally sent that last email

Here is the main part of the script - check that the PROTERMCAP can be found
# set home location
home=`pwd`;export home

# setup PROTERMCAP to point at local protermcap
PROTERMCAP=$home/protermcap;export PROTERMCAP

# setup HHPATH for Help
HHPATH=$home;export HHPATH
HOHPATH=$home;export HOHPATH

# run installation executable
./_ovrly -u

Posted by Jeff Ledbetter on 06-Mar-2017 10:32

Couldn't find anything funky but just copied the PROTERMCAP from another installation to get past this.

Thanks for your input.

Posted by Jeff Ledbetter on 06-Mar-2017 13:40

Found the funky. There was a blank line in the PROTERMCAP.,

Posted by Tom Cattigan on 06-Mar-2017 13:48

ah that'll do it.  I modified the protermcap file once...once.. :-)  Glad you found it!

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