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xterm-256color on Ubuntu

As I upgraded my Mac to Lion, I found that I got an error that says:

Cannot find terminfo entry for 'xterm-256color'.

when I launched screen on my Ubuntu server. This is because the default term name has changed from xterm-color to xterm-256color.

To install terminfo for xterm-256color, install ncurses-term package on your Ubuntu.