Was reading this and got Nano installed

http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=5558.0

 

I've got this in my GO script

 

installpkg /boot/packages/nano-2.2.4-i486-1.txz

 

but when I go to launch Nano while SSH'd in using Terminal on Mac, I get the following error:

 

Error opening terminal: xterm-color.

 

Reading up on this error, I thought Lion would fix it since it now supported 256 color term but nope:

 

Error opening terminal: xterm-256color.

 

This has to be a small setting I'm missing as it works on the box directly.  Anyone know?  Thanks.

After you ssh into your UnRAID box, type:

export TERM=xterm

 

Then you should be able to run nano.

After you ssh into your UnRAID box, type:

export TERM=xterm

 

Then you should be able to run nano.

or, on your mac, set "terminal" to emulate "xterm" instead of xterm-color/

After you ssh into your UnRAID box, type:

export TERM=xterm

 

Then you should be able to run nano.

 

Thx this worked! 

 

Joe L. - setting it to just xterm came up with the same error but I may have had to restart Terminal (which I can't do right now, preclearing a drive)

After you ssh into your UnRAID box, type:

export TERM=xterm

 

Then you should be able to run nano.

or, on your mac, set "terminal" to emulate "xterm" instead of xterm-color/

 

I use terminal to connect to a number of different systems and don't like have my terminal emulation type defined in my Mac's Terminal.app preferences.  Rather, I prefer to setup my terminal emulation on the system that I'm logging into.  For UnRAID, I created a script called 'create_bash_profile.sh' which includes the following:

##############################################################################
# set the terminal type for any future login by the root user
echo "export TERM=xterm" >> /root/.bash_profile
##############################################################################

I then added that script to my go config file:
##############################################################################
# Run my scripts
/boot/scripts/create_bash_profile.sh
##############################################################################

Now, any time I reboot my system (or run my go script), a .bash_profile is created for the root user.  Whenever I log in as the root user the .bash_profile script is run and sets up my terminal emulation type.  yeah.

 

Of course, you can add other useful things in the script as well.

 

 

Mac users, I highly recommend using this free terminal replacement:

 

http://www.iterm2.com

 

 

Mac users, I highly recommend using this free terminal replacement:

 

http://www.iterm2.com

 

 

 

Excellent.  Never saw that before, gonna check it out.  Thx.

If you still want to use the Mac Terminal, you can more simply go to Preferences->Settings->Advanced and change "Declare Terminal as: " to xterm, so you don't have to type "export TERM=xterm" each time you login.

All you need to do is install ncurses, now doing this on all my linux builds.