Eugeniy Meshcheryakov wrote: > Currently if TERM variable have value that whiptail does not understand > installation of packages fails (real example is installation of > libpango1.0-common package via ssh using mlterm terminal emulator > (TERM=mlterm) when only one host have mlterm installed): > > # TERM=dfdfsdsd dpkg-reconfigure libpango1.0-common > Cleaning up font configuration of pango... > Cleaning up category xfont.. > Unknown terminal: dfdfsdsd > Check the TERM environment variable. > Also make sure that the terminal is defined in the terminfo database. > Alternatively, set the TERMCAP environment variable to the desired > termcap entry. > debconf: whiptail output to the above errors, giving up! > > It will be better to use teletype frontend in such situations.
Any idea of a good way to check for this? Note that it would need to work using only the packages in base. -- see shy jo
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