After the installation of OSX Lion, I tried to:
nano /etc/apt/sources.list
But I get this error:
Error opening terminal: xterm-256color
If I try to switch terminal.app preferences to open terminal windows in "xterm color" instead of xterm-256color
everything works fine.
What's happening?
On Red Hat this worked for me:
export TERM=xterm
further info here: http://www.cloudfarm.it/fix-error-opening-terminal-xterm-256color-unknown-terminal-type/
After upgrading to OSX Lion, I started getting this error on certain (Debian/Ubuntu) servers. The fix is simply to install the “ncurses-term” package which provides the file /usr/share/terminfo/x/xterm-256color.
This worked for me on a Ubuntu server, via Erik Osterman.
I can confirm this is a terminfo issue. This is what worked for me. SSH in to the remote machine and run
sudo apt-get install ncurses-term
Boom. Problem solved.
I had this problem connecting to http://sdf.org through Mac OS X Lion. I changed under Terminal Preferences
(⌘+,) > Advanced
pane, Declare Terminal as
to VT-100
.
I also marked Delete Sends Ctrl-H
because this Mac connection was confusing zsh
.
It appears to be working for my use case.
I, too, have this problem on an older Mac that I upgraded to Lion.
Before reading the terminfo tip, I was able to get vi and less working by doing "export TERM=xterm".
After reading the tip, I grabbed /usr/share/terminfo
from a newer Mac that has fresh install of Lion and does not exhibit this problem.
Now, even though echo $TERM
still yields xterm-256color
, vi and less now work fine.
somehow and sometimes "terminfo" folder comes corrupted after a fresh installation. i don't know why, but the problem can be solved in this way:
1. Download Lion Installer from the App Store
2. Download unpkg: http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/16357/unpkg
3. Open Lion Installer app in Finder (Right click -> Show Package
Contents)
4. Open InstallESD.dmg (under SharedSupport)
5. Unpack BSD.pkg with unpkg (Located under Packages) Term info
will be located in the new BSD folder in /usr/share/terminfo
hope it helps.
I hear that this can be fixed by overwriting your /usr/share/terminfo
with one from the computer of somebody with a working install of Lion. I can't confirm whether this works or not, and unfortunately I haven't upgraded yet, so I can't provide you with that file.
You can add the following in your .bashrc
if [ "$TERM" = xterm ]; then TERM=xterm-256color; fi
edit your
.bash_profile
filevim .bash_profile
commnet
#export TERM=xterm-256color
add this
export TERMINFO=/usr/share/terminfo
export TERM=xterm-basic
to your
.bash_profile
finally
run:
source .bash_profile
Mine was quite a unique case but this could help someone. On Android I tried to copy nano from my termux binary folder to /system/xbin. Placed all the library dependencies in /system/lib and got this error. The libncurses.so.6 file I copied from termux had it's TERMINFO file still pointed to /data/data/com.termux/files/usr/share/terminfo
View pointed path with command
strings path-to-libncurses.so | grep /terminfo
To fix either make the termux terminfo dir and subdirs readable and executable by the nano user or copy the terminfo folder somewhere else and use a hexeditor to modify the plain text path in the shared library file.
Link to zipped terminfo folder https://drive.google.com/file/d/1m1tfHgkGRehBGh1jPMK4EaTgQb9EyCG7/view?usp=drivesdk
来源:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6804208/nano-error-error-opening-terminal-xterm-256color