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From: "Walter Dnes" <waltdnes@waltdnes.org>
To: Gentoo Users List <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>
Subject: [gentoo-user] SSH xterm not working properly during install
Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2020 22:02:25 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200708020225.GB27227@waltdnes.org> (raw)

  I normally install Gentoo by manually typing in stuff, on the target
machine, as per the docs.  This is painfull.  Today I decided to ssh
into the install, and cut + paste stuff into an ssh xterm into the
install.  This went flying along really fast until I went to emerge
after having updated make.conf.  I got a slew of weird errors.

  It turns out that make.conf was majorly butchered after I had done
some "simple" edits over ssh.  This seems to be a terminfo problem, so
it may apply to more than just nano.  But see...
https://serverfault.com/questions/329154/ssh-garbling-characters-in-vim-nano-on-remote-server
https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/1436

  I don't understand the workings of terminfo so my 3-part question is...

1) Can I do an incantation on the laptop (install machine) to make it
understand my desktop's xterm?

2) Can I do an incantation on the desktop's xterm, or install another
terminal, to make its output understandable to the target machine?

3) Or do I have to pull the laptop onto my desk, and type in stuff
manually for everything nano-related during the install?

-- 
Walter Dnes <waltdnes@waltdnes.org>
I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications


             reply	other threads:[~2020-07-08  2:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-07-08  2:02 Walter Dnes [this message]
2020-07-08  4:06 ` [gentoo-user] SSH xterm not working properly during install tastytea
2020-07-08  4:40   ` Walter Dnes
2020-07-08  4:58     ` Grant Taylor
2020-07-08  7:46       ` William Kenworthy
2020-07-08 19:35       ` [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] " Walter Dnes
2020-07-08 13:48 ` [gentoo-user] " Grant Edwards
2020-07-08 19:42   ` [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] " Walter Dnes
2020-07-09  6:20     ` Walter Dnes
2020-07-09  2:05   ` [gentoo-user] " james
2020-07-09  2:41     ` james

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