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Forked from stengland/Fix rxvt-unicode via ssh.md
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If tmux fails with the message "open terminal failed: missing or unsuitable terminal: rxvt-unicode-256color".

$ ssh remotemachine mkdir -p .terminfo/r
$ scp /usr/share/terminfo/r/rxvt-unicode* remotemachine:.terminfo/r/
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