> 
> Good Afternoon,
> 
> I just installed Lynx on a new install of Solaris 8.  I hardened Solaris
> with the jassp script (www.jassp.org). The Sparc 5 box has no video card.
> 
> When I try and run Lynx from the terminal I get the following error, "Error
> opening terminal: sun."
> When I try and run Lynx from a telnet session (Linux box), I get the
> following error "Error opening terminal: xterm."

perhaps lynx was built with ncurses, but its terminfo database was not
installed (I've seen this commented on a few times).  You can make it
use Solaris' terminfo set setting the $TERMINFO variable, e.g., to
/usr/share/lib/terminfo

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