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

I was able to change Mac OSX(10.7.5) terminal(v2.2.3, 303.2) emulation from the menu Terminal>Preferences>Settings>Advanced>Emulation Declare terminal as xterm-color

Opening a new terminal ssh connection enabled the new setting.