I was having a simalar problem. The first time I installed debconf I saw GTK and said WoW that looks rad. The problem with using gtk for me was that I forget to export my display and stuff when I su to do a package upgrade.
For the longest time I was looking for a way to edit some config file for debconf to change the default dialog back to dialog (or text). The reason I had a hard time was there is no man page for debconf. I also did not find any help in doc/debconf except something that refered to dpkg-preconfigure. Which made me think to use dpkg-reconfigure debconf (this did work and I felt foolish as usual). Is there some way that debconf can have a man page explaining how to configure it? I also was under the impression that EVERY package in debian has a man page (even that one that says "the program has no man page"). The other thought I had was that man pages come from the upstream author but being that we are the upstream shouldn't there be a man page? -Ryan White (I am new to debian development but am soaking up as much information as I can) On Fri, 7 Jan 2000, Neil Booth wrote: > I'm running the latest potato, but if upgrade something to the latest > and greatest, I tend to get the following error: > > debconf: failed to initialize Dialog frontend > debconf: falling back to Text frontend > > How can I fix this? > > Neil. > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >
