Charlie Zender wrote: > The packages _do_ install fine, but apparently many of them would > prefer to use a Gnome/GTK method to be configured.
Well, no, apprrently you have told debconf that you want it to use
gnome.
> I always do the upgrades as root, and root's environment has
> DISPLAY=:0
> which seems fine to me, but perhaps it should be set to something
> else? I am _running_ on DISPAY :0.0, and I'm not doing anything
> fancy that I'm aware of.
>
> Any hints on how to get rid of these warning messages?
> Is there a permission I need to set somewhere? xhost?
I find this useful in my .xinitrc:
if [ -z "$XAUTHORITY" ]; then
XAUTHORITY=$HOME/.Xauthority
export XAUTHORITY
fi
YYMV. You could also just do this:
# echo SET debconf/frontend dialog | debconf-communicate
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