'Xterm-New': Unknown Terminal Type
Replicating the Error: I Am Using iTerm2 on Macbook (Os X Yosemite) I Ssh into a Remote Instance and Tried to Run the Clear Command and This Error Is Shown...
Replicating the error:
I am using iTerm2 on Macbook (OS X Yosemite)
I ssh into a remote instance and tried to run the
clearcommand and this error is shown:'xterm-new': unknown terminal type.
Not only for the
clearcommand but the same error is displayed for several other commands and the command does not execute as expected.The error occurs only when I use iTerm2 and not when I use the default Mac Terminal. So I am guessing this problem has something to do with iTerm2 and not the virtual machine.
How can I solve this problem with iTerm2?
1 Answer
As mikyra pointed out in the comments above, setting the environment variable TERM=xterm-256color solves the problem.
To summarize:
# Run the following commands on the local machine's bash prompt
echo "export TERM=xterm-256color" >> ~/.bashrc
source ~/.bashrc
ssh into remote machine and run the commands you like. The same xterm-new error should not occur now.
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