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Expand Up @@ -422,6 +422,7 @@ Troubleshoot

- The plot looks bad:
- Verify that you installed the wide character version of the ncurses library (libncurses**w**5-dev for Debian / Ubuntu), clean the build directory and restart the build process.
- If `nvtop` exits with `ncurses: cannot initialize terminal type ($TERM="unknown")`, ensure that `$TERM` is set to a valid terminal type such as `xterm-256color`.
- **Putty**: Tell putty not to lie about its capabilities (`$TERM`) by setting the field ``Terminal-type string`` to ``putty`` in the menu
``Connection > Data > Terminal Details``.
- `NO GPU to monitor.` for NVIDIA GPUs:
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