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

I had the same issue, especially when the TERM environment variable is set to xterm-256color. Setting it to a different value fixed the issue for me, e.g.

export TERM=xterm-color