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

You probably need to install a package on your Linux host which provides one of the following files:

/usr/share/terminfo/x/xterm-256color
/lib/terminfo/x/xterm-256color

On Ubuntu, for example, this is provided by the ncurses-base package.