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I'm connecting to a remote server through SSH Manjaro machine with urxvt to a LXD container, which is running Centos 7. But for some odd reasean I cannot run htop.....
I'm getting the following error

[someuser@Proxy ~]$ htop
Error opening terminal: xterm-256-color.

I'm pretty sure it is a terminal issue. I just don't know how to fix it.

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  • I think this is the same issue: stackoverflow.com/questions/6788402/… Commented Feb 23, 2017 at 20:31
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    I think your correct! I found the answer which is to add export TERM=xterm in .bashrc. But due to the rules I can't add the answer so quickly Commented Feb 23, 2017 at 20:33

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Your TERM variable has a wrong value for htop.

According to this answer you have to set TERM correctly:

export TERM=xterm-color

or

export TERM=xterm

You can put this in .bashrc of the SSHD server user.

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  • Easy points to you ;) Commented Feb 24, 2017 at 9:15
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Probably is missing the $DISPLAY environment variable or your connection through ssh-server don't allow ForwardX11, please review this parameter in the sshd.conf of your remote server.

The parameter ForwardX11 must be yes

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    No, the question is about a terminal program, not about a GUI program. Commented Feb 23, 2017 at 23:08

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