Actually, I still see a few minor errors after installing
`ncurses-term`. For example:

"TERMCAP", line 20, col 1, terminal 'SC': Missing separator

On Thu, May 24, 2018 at 6:46 PM, Dun Peal <dunpea...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks, Axel. Installing ncurses-term (with `apt install ncurses-term`
> on Ubuntu) fixed the issue immediately.
>
> Best, D.
>
> On Thu, May 24, 2018 at 6:39 PM, Axel Beckert <a...@deuxchevaux.org> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Thu, May 24, 2018 at 04:53:32PM -0500, Dun Peal wrote:
>>> I recently upgraded to latest stable Ubuntu (18.04 LTS).
>>> Unfortunately, after building screen from source, 256 mode no longer
>>> seems to work. For example, if I launch vim, it reverts to the 8 color
>>> color scheme.
>>>
>>> This was a problem with both the 4.6.2 release (which appears to be
>>> the latest officially tagged release) and the older 4.5.1 release that
>>> I've been using on Ubuntu 16.04 and worked flawlessly with 256 colors.
>>
>> If I understand your problem correctly, this is not an issue in screen
>> but depends on the set of terminal definitions available on your
>> system(s). Usually having ncurses-term installed (on both sides, if
>> SSH is involved) suffices to fix these kind of issues.
>>
>> See also the discussion in https://bugs.debian.org/898666
>>
>>                 Kind regards, Axel
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