tput and rxvt-unicode

[Kasyx]

I recently installed Arch Linux on my laptop and I am using RatPoison as the Window Manager. I've set my default terminal to rxvt-unicode, however now when I attempt to ssh into my firewall (running IPCop), tput does not recognize my terminal:

tput: unknown terminal "rxvt-unicode"

This sucks, because it means that for one thing my pretty bashrc login message doesn't render properly, but more importantly I can't use anything that requires ncurses, such as nano. Does anyone know of any way I can add rxvt-unicode to the tput terminal database?

This really sucks because I love rxvt-unicode, but I do most of my firewall administration from my laptop...

 

[ponder]

Maybe try the Arch forums.

Did you try the rxvt-unicode package in AUR?
Also see this:
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Rxvt-unicode
http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Rxvt-Unicode

Sorry but I do not have an answer for you. Another option is to fire a mail off to the developer.

 

[fskmh]

Solution 1:
The terminfo file /usr/share/terminfo/r/rxvt-unicode is missing from the remote box. scp it from your laptop.
Solution 2:
Export your TERM env var to "xterm" or whatever else is close enough to rxvt and works.

 

[Kasyx]

I went with solution 1. fixed the problem. Thanks for the help