[Solved-5 Solutions] nano error: Error opening terminal: xterm-256color



Error Description:

nano error: Error opening terminal: xterm-256color

Solution 1:

  • It seems like we have a problem with the terminal definition.
  • Try using xterm instead of xterm-256color
export TERM=xterm
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  • or the following terminal setting:
export TERMINFO=/etc/terminfo
export TERM=linux
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  • Also, if we still have problem with nano try using vi which is a simple editor and doesn't required much from the terminal
sudo vi /var/www/mutillidae/config.inc
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Solution 2:

    • Code:
    sudo apt-get install rxvt-unicode
    nano ~/.bashrc
    export TERM=rxvt-unicode
    
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    • Now we should be able to run x-terminal-emulator or gnome-terminal-emulator and everything should work fine.
    • we are not sure if this is just me but if we press ctrl+alt+T and are confronted with the wrong terminal, just open system settings -> keyboard -> shortcuts -> create a custom shortcut with our preferred terminal on ctrl+alt+t. This will override the system shortcut.

    Solution 3:

      • After upgrading to OSX Lion, we 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 us on a Ubuntu server

      Solution 4:

      • The problem can be solved in this way:
      • Download Lion Installer from the App Store
      • Download unpkg:
      • Open Lion Installer app in Finder (Right click -> Show Package Contents)
      • Open InstallESD.dmg (under SharedSupport)
      • Unpack BSD.pkg with unpkg (Located under Packages) Term info will be located in the new BSD folder in /usr/share/terminfo

      Solution 5:

        • We can confirm this is a terminfo issue. This is what worked for us.
        • SSH in to the remote machine and run
        sudo apt-get install ncurses-term
        
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