If you try to use vi or another curses based application in Redhat or Centos 6 and you get the error :-
E437: terminal capability “cm” required
Press ENTER or type command to continue
And your TERM type is something other than a vt100 like a dtterm then you need to install additional terminfo
The fix
yum install ncurses-term
Now ls /usr/share/terminfo/d shows lots of entries rather than dumb
Thanks, It solved my problem…
Holy cow, thank you!! I’m trying to configure my Linux environment so that the crusty old Unix users can work in monochrome (while providing the new Linux hires with 256-color) and this was a huge help! Thank you!
Excellent article. It works.
Did not work for me , it went tho a myriad of mirrors
We are on GNU
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Trying other mirror.
http://mirror.netflash.net/centos/6.5/os/x86_64/Packages/ncurses-term-5.7-3.2009
0208.el6.x86_64.rpm: [Errno 14] PYCURL ERROR 6 – “Couldn’t resolve host ‘mirror.
netflash.net'”
Trying other mirror.
Error Downloading Packages:
ncurses-term-5.7-3.20090208.el6.x86_64: failure: Packages/ncurses-term-5.7-3.2
0090208.el6.x86_64.rpm from base: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try.
Huge help, many thanks !