cloudposse/geodesic

unknown terminal "xterm-termite"

osterman opened this issue · 1 comments

osterman commented

what

On Arch linux someone reported in slack that they get this error:

✗   (none) ~ ⨠  echo $TERM
xterm-termite
tput: unknown terminal "xterm-termite"
tput: unknown terminal "xterm-termite"
-> Run 'assume-role' to login to AWS
tput: unknown terminal "xterm-termite"
tput: unknown terminal "xterm-termite"
(~4 more times)

why

  • Appears that geodesic doesn't have a terminfo file for Termite

remediation

for anyone else with this problem, run it in tmux or simply export TERM=screen-256color

Nuru commented

Alpine linux (on which Geodesic is based) has support for termite but not xterm-termite.
Affected users can add support easily by adding this line to their Dockerfile:

RUN curl -sSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/thestinger/termite/master/termite.terminfo | tic -x -

Affected users using shells they cannot customize can work around the issue by executing

export TERM=xterm-256color

inside the shell on the command line or including that in their Geodesic preferences file.

Closing as wontfix because this is the kind of thing that is best left up to Alpine maintainers to handle and there is not enough need for it to warrant special handling.

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