Re: Unsupported Term message

oracle wrote:
>
> Michael R wrote:
> > 
> > I'm somewhat new to Oracle on the HP-UX system, but not to Oracle on
 other
> > platforms.  When I try to run ORAINST I get the following error:
> > 
> > tk2c*.res not found
> > Supported Terminals are :
> > 
> > TERM=xterm  ORACLE_TERM=hp
> > Can't find resource file
> > /users/oracle/./tk2{TERM}.res or
> > /users/oracle/./tk2{ORACLE_TERM}.res
> > Please set your TERM variable to one of the supported terminals.
> > 
> > However, my environment has the TERM=xterm.
> > What am I missing here??
> > 
 

> > Thanks
> > 
> > Michael
>
> Michael,
>  
> A couple things come to mind when I see this kind of error:
>  
> 1)  Why is it looking in "/users/oracle/./tk2cxterm.res"  I would
> think it would 
>      need to find this file somewhere else like under 
>      ORACLE_HOME/guicommon2/tk21/terminal..
>  
> 2) If this is a fresh install, then you should be running the
> installer from a link
>     directory after executing "/cdrom/orainst/start.sh"
>  
> 3) Try setting your ORACLE_TERM to something like vt100 and see
>     if that works.
>  
> . 

The ORACLE_TERMINAL environmental variable needs to point to the appropriate directory.
Try ORACLE_TERMINAL=$ORACLE_HOME/orainst for example Received on Thu Feb 13 1997 - 00:00:00 CST