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

Find out which TERM is supported:

ls /usr/share/terminfo/x

this will give you a list of supported TERMs i.e.

xterm
xterm-xfree86

set the environment variable:

export TERM=xterm-xfree86

and run screen:

TERMINFO='/usr/share/terminfo/' screen