vim colorscheme not working in terminal vim but working in gvim

Question

I am using the vim solarized color scheme. the following is the setting in my .vimrc file

Plugin 'altercation/vim-colors-solarized'
syntax enable
set background=dark
colorscheme solarized

the following image is the vim rendering between the terminal and the gvim What can i do to fix the terminal vim?

Answer 1

This worked for me. In the .vimrc following lines needed to be added

let g:solarized_termcolors=16 
set t_Co=256 
set background=dark
colorscheme solarized

additionaly you can add the gnome solarised to your terminal