SBT Error: “Failed to construct terminal; falling back to unsupported…”

Question

I have run into an ERROR with SBT today. It can best be shown with the sbt sbt-version command:

Run on 5/29/17:

eric@linux-x2vq:~$ sbt s         


        

Answer 1

If you can, change sbt version in build.properties to higher. 13.16 work for me.

Answer 2

This resolved the issue in my case (Linux Users):

1. Open your terminal
2. Navigate to your project directory
3. type "export TERM=xterm-color" in your terminal without the quotes
4. Hit ENTER

That is all and then you are good to go.

Answer 3

You can add export TERM=xterm-color to the top of /usr/share/sbt/bin/sbt because $HOME/.sbtconfig is deprecated.

Answer 4

I faced this issue when i am using activator which uses sbt internally. I am using Ubuntu and this error was frustrating me. I started facing this issue when i ran

$ activator gen-idea (tool which as per the intellij is legacy)

After this i tried to delete all the cache that this tool generated.

I deleted the .ivy and .sbt directories from my home folder and ran the activator cleanFiles compile command which resolved my issue.