I recently upgraded (with apt-get dist-upgrade) my Kubuntu and Lubuntu Linux boxes, and now every time I log into one of these machines, I get this message:

tput: No value for $TERM and no -T specified


Here is a screenshot of the exact message:


This happened on both my Lubuntu machine and Kubuntu machine, and it wasn't a problem until after I upgraded; so I suspect that it was not user error.

How can I fix this?

UPDATE

I have tracked this down to my .bashrc file, which is getting called by my .profile file.  Though, the fact that my .bashrc file now runs when I do a GUI login whereas it didn't before I upgraded is a bit weird.  And no, I haven't modified my .bashrc file or my .profile recently.  Also, bash isn't my default shell.

The problem is that I am calling tput in my .bashrc file to set up variables for use in adding color to the prompt.  But at the (inappropriate) time when my .bashrc file now gets run, $TERM is not set.

fgRed=$(tput setaf 1)     ; fgGreen=$(tput setaf 2)  ; fgBlue=$(tput setaf 4)
fgMagenta=$(tput setaf 5) ; fgYellow=$(tput setaf 3) ; fgCyan=$(tput setaf 6)
fgWhite=$(tput setaf 7)   ; fgBlack=$(tput setaf 0)
bgRed=$(tput setab 1)     ; bgGreen=$(tput setab 2)  ; bgBlue=$(tput setab 4)
bgMagenta=$(tput setab 5) ; bgYellow=$(tput setab 3) ; bgCyan=$(tput setab 6)
bgWhite=$(tput setab 7)   ; bgBlack=$(tput setab 0)


Updated question: How should I fix this?  Should I set $TERM myself?  Or should I just not set these variables if $TERM is not set?

UPDATE 2

One solution I tried was to check whether $TERM was set. But this didn't seem to work; I still got the same error message.  Here's the code:

if [ ! "$TERM" = "" ]; then
  #Do stuff here
fi


So apparently $TERM was set, but tput still concluded it wasn't.


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