Screen: Cannot find terminfo entry for 'xterm-256color'

Question

When I run

screen

on the remote host(running Linux), I obtain the following error:

Cannot find terminfo entry for \'xterm-         


        

Answer 1

In the terminal app you are using to ssh, go to preferences -> advanced -> Declare terminal as: -> xterm-color (or something besides xterm-256color)

This answer was taken from a comment to this post, which has another solution: http://marcoschuh.de/wp/?p=873