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Operating Systems Solaris VI Editor issue "E558: Terminal entry not found in terminfo" Post 302403093 by incredible on Thursday 11th of March 2010 11:13:11 AM
Old 03-11-2010
env >>my_env.txt
check how your terminal is set:
echo $TERM
echo $DISPLAY
Code:
Why am I having problems with terminfo/curses?

Terminator has its own terminfo file. This is regrettably necessary because of Terminator's unconventional approach to handling wide lines with a horizontal scrollbar rather than by wrapping them. The file will be installed under ~/.terminfo the first time you run Terminator. If you used an installer that runs as root and can write to the system-wide terminfo directory (currently just the Linux installer), the terminfo file will be installed system-wide at install time.

If you run Terminator itself as root and the terminfo file has not been installed in the system-wide terminfo directory, it will be installed at that point.

If the terminfo file isn't available, the most common warnings you'll see are this one from programs such as less(1):

WARNING: terminal is not fully functional
-  (press RETURN)

and this one, from vim(1):

E558: Terminal entry not found in terminfo
'terminator' not known. Available builtin terminals are:
    builtin_riscos
    builtin_amiga
    builtin_beos-ansi
    builtin_ansi
    builtin_pcansi
    builtin_win32
    builtin_vt320
    builtin_vt52
    builtin_xterm
    builtin_iris-ansi
    builtin_debug
    builtin_dumb
defaulting to 'ansi'

If you think you have the correct terminfo available but you're still having problems, the next thing to check is that you're actually using Terminator's terminfo. For example, if your problem is with your shell, check that echo $TERM says "terminator", and if your problem is with Vim, check that :se term says "term=terminator".

Although Terminator sets the TERM environment variable to "terminator" for you, your shell's profile may be setting it to an incorrect value. Also, if you're logging in to a remote machine, the value of TERM may not be correctly transferred. It's always worth checking as described in the previous paragraph. The correct fix is to change your profile so it doesn't override TERM, and to use protocols like SSH which transfer your terminal type. You definitely shouldn't force TERM to be "terminator" (or any other value) in your profile: that's how you get into this kind of trouble.

 

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LEARN ABOUT SUNOS

tic

tic(1M) 						  System Administration Commands						   tic(1M)

NAME

       tic - terminfo compiler

SYNOPSIS

       tic [-v [n]] [-c] file

DESCRIPTION

       The  command  tic  translates  a  terminfo  file  from  the source format into the compiled format. The results are placed in the directory
       /usr/share/lib/terminfo. The compiled format is necessary for use with the library routines in curses(3CURSES).

       If the environment variable TERMINFO  is set, the compiled results are placed there instead of /usr/share/lib/terminfo.

       Total compiled entries cannot exceed 4096 bytes. The name field cannot exceed 128 bytes. Terminal names exceeding  14  characters  will	be
       truncated to 14 characters and a warning message will be printed.

OPTIONS

       The following options are supported:

       -c	Specifies to check only file for errors. Errors in use= links are not detected.

       -v[n]	Specify  that  (verbose) output be written to standard error trace information showing tic's progress. The optional integer n is a
		number from 1 to 10, indicating the desired level of detail of information. If n is omitted, the default level is 1. If n is spec-
		ified and greater than 1, the level of detail is increased.

OPERANDS

       file

	   Contains  one  or  more  terminfo terminal descriptions in source format [see terminfo(4)].	Each description in the file describes the
	   capabilities of a particular terminal. When a use=entry-name field is discovered in a terminal  entry  currently  being  compiled,  tic
	   reads  in the binary from /usr/share/lib/terminfo to complete the entry. (Entries created from file will be used first. If the environ-
	   ment variable TERMINFO  is set, that directory is searched instead of /usr/share/lib/terminfo.)  tic  duplicates  the  capabilities	in
	   entry-name for the current entry, with the exception of those capabilities that are explicitly defined in the current entry.

FILES

       /usr/share/lib/terminfo/?/*     Compiled terminal description database

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWcsu			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       captoinfo(1M), infocmp(1M), curses(3CURSES), terminfo(4), attributes(5)

NOTES

       When  an entry, for example, entry_name_1, contains a use=entry_name_2 field, any canceled capabilities in entry_name_2 must also appear in
       entry_name_1 before use= for these capabilities to be canceled in entry_name_1.

SunOS 5.10							    5 Jul 1990								   tic(1M)
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