On Mon, Nov 19, 2007 at 11:43:57AM -0500, Chris Capon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > When installing any package, these lines are always displayed in the Terminal > window: > > debconf: unable to initialize frontend: Dialog > debconf: (TERM is not set, so the dialog frontend is not usable.) > debconf: falling back to frontend: Readline > > I can not find any documentation on how to set the TERM environment variable > within Aptitude so debconf > can not use the Dialog interface as configured. Debconf does ask questions > inline within the terminal window so this > bug does not prevent installations from completing. > > Also, this message does not appear when running apt-get or dpkg-reconfigure > from within a normal terminal window.
Are you running aptitude as root, or using the feature where it automatically prompts you for your password? I'm not 100% sure that the auto-su-to-root stuff preserves environment variables. Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
