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Subject:  Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: {rxvt-unicode-X/rxvt-unicode-common}-9.07-1
Date:  Wed, 20 Jan 2010 19:15:10 +0100
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I installed rxvt-unicode-X and rxvt-unicode-common.
The postinstall script has run, /etc/termcap has been updated.
/usr/share/terminfo as well:

> $ find /usr/share/terminfo -mtime -1
> /usr/share/terminfo/72
> /usr/share/terminfo/72/rxvt-unicode
> /usr/share/terminfo/72/rxvt-unicode256

However I get "unknown terminal type" messages:

> $ echo $TERM
> rxvt-unicode
> 
> me@p3200 ~
> $ top
> 'rxvt-unicode': unknown terminal type.

> $ ls -l /bin/urxvt
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 Teun Geen 23 2010-01-20 18:56 /bin/urxvt -> /etc/alternatives/urxvt
> 
> me@p3200 ~
> $ ls -l /etc/alternatives/urxvt
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 Teun Geen 20 2010-01-20 18:56 /etc/alternatives/urxvt -> /usr/bin/urxvt-X.exe

setting TERM to xterm works.
Does anyone know why TERM=rxvt-unicode won't work?

Teun


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