# Installation issue **URL:** \ **Category:** Old Forum Archive\ **Created:** [May 28, 2013, 7:29am UTC](https://discuss.gradle.org/t/installation-issue/2154 "2013-05-28T07:29:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Igor\_Meltser](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/67e7ee/32.png) [@Igor\_Meltser](https://discuss.gradle.org/u/Igor_Meltser)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2013, 7:29am UTC](https://discuss.gradle.org/t/installation-issue/2154/1 "2013-05-28T07:29:00Z")
Hi, I am trying to install gradle on openSuse. I followed the instructions, unzip, added bin folder to path, but when I run gradle I get: :~\> gradle FAILURE: Build aborted because of an internal error. - What went wrong: Build aborted because of an unexpected internal error. Please file an issue at: [http://forums.gradle.org](http://forums.gradle.org). - Try: Run with --debug option to get additional debug info. - Exception is: net.rubygrapefruit.platform.NativeException: Could not open terminal for stdout: could not get termcap entry at net.rubygrapefruit.platform.internal.TerminfoTerminal.init(TerminfoTerminal.java:49) at net.rubygrapefruit.platform.internal.WrapperTerminal.init(WrapperTerminal.java:41) at net.rubygrapefruit.platform.internal.AbstractTerminals.getTerminal(AbstractTerminals.java:35) at org.gradle.internal.nativeplatform.console.NativePlatformConsoleDetector.getConsole(NativePlatformConsoleDetector.java:42) at org.gradle.logging.internal.ConsoleConfigureAction.execute(ConsoleConfigureAction.java:32) at org.gradle.logging.internal.ConsoleConfigureAction.execute(ConsoleConfigureAction.java:27) at org.gradle.logging.internal.OutputEventRenderer.attachConsole(OutputEventRenderer.java:68) at org.gradle.logging.internal.DefaultLoggingManager.attachConsole(DefaultLoggingManager.java:149) at org.gradle.launcher.cli.CommandLineActionFactory$WithLogging.execute(CommandLineActionFactory.java:168) at org.gradle.launcher.cli.CommandLineActionFactory$WithLogging.execute(CommandLineActionFactory.java:139) at org.gradle.launcher.cli.ExceptionReportingAction.execute(ExceptionReportingAction.java:33) at org.gradle.launcher.cli.ExceptionReportingAction.execute(ExceptionReportingAction.java:22) at org.gradle.launcher.Main.doAction(Main.java:48) at org.gradle.launcher.bootstrap.EntryPoint.run(EntryPoint.java:45) at org.gradle.launcher.Main.main(Main.java:39) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:601) at org.gradle.launcher.bootstrap.ProcessBootstrap.runNoExit(ProcessBootstrap.java:50) at org.gradle.launcher.bootstrap.ProcessBootstrap.run(ProcessBootstrap.java:32) at org.gradle.launcher.GradleMain.main(GradleMain.java:26) Any advice? ---
**Author:** ![luke\_daley](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/gradle/user_avatar/discuss.gradle.org/luke_daley/32/9890_2.png) [@luke\_daley](https://discuss.gradle.org/u/luke_daley)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2013, 8:18am UTC](https://discuss.gradle.org/t/installation-issue/2154/2 "2013-05-28T08:18:00Z")
This looks like a bug in the native capability detection. I’ve raised GRADLE-2782. In the meantime, you can try disabling it by setting the env var ‘GRADLE\_OPTS’: export GRADLE\_OPTS=-Dorg.gradle.native=false ---
**Author:** ![Igor\_Meltser](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/67e7ee/32.png) [@Igor\_Meltser](https://discuss.gradle.org/u/Igor_Meltser)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2013, 8:20am UTC](https://discuss.gradle.org/t/installation-issue/2154/3 "2013-05-28T08:20:00Z")
Thanks, it worked. ---
**Author:** ![adammurdoch](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/gradle/user_avatar/discuss.gradle.org/adammurdoch/32/17_2.png) [@adammurdoch](https://discuss.gradle.org/u/adammurdoch)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2014, 9:42pm UTC](https://discuss.gradle.org/t/installation-issue/2154/4 "2014-04-06T21:42:00Z")
Can you provide the output of ‘gradle -v’? ---
**Author:** ![Igor\_Meltser](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/67e7ee/32.png) [@Igor\_Meltser](https://discuss.gradle.org/u/Igor_Meltser)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2014, 6:51am UTC](https://discuss.gradle.org/t/installation-issue/2154/5 "2014-04-07T06:51:00Z")
------------------------------------------------------------ Gradle 1.6 ------------------------------------------------------------ Gradle build time: Tuesday, May 7, 2013 9:12:14 AM UTC Groovy: 1.8.6 Ant: Apache Ant™ version 1.8.4 compiled on May 22 2012 Ivy: 2.2.0 JVM: 1.7.0\_17 (Oracle Corporation 23.7-b01) OS: Linux 3.4.63-2.44-desktop amd64 ---
**Author:** ![adammurdoch](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/gradle/user_avatar/discuss.gradle.org/adammurdoch/32/17_2.png) [@adammurdoch](https://discuss.gradle.org/u/adammurdoch)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2014, 7:15am UTC](https://discuss.gradle.org/t/installation-issue/2154/6 "2014-04-07T07:15:00Z")
Thanks. What’s your $TERM environment variable set to? ---
**Author:** ![Igor\_Meltser](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/67e7ee/32.png) [@Igor\_Meltser](https://discuss.gradle.org/u/Igor_Meltser)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2014, 8:00am UTC](https://discuss.gradle.org/t/installation-issue/2154/7 "2014-04-07T08:00:00Z")
TERM=xterm