On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 06:08:26PM +0000, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > man debconf shows -ftype which i only just found in the last > 30 seconds but it is not specified what the front-end types > are! the choices are: Dialog, Readline, Gnome, Editor, Noninteractive but i cheated to get that, with a little grep -C debconf/frontend /var/cache/debconf/templates.dat > dan wants to do debian with as much graphical interfacey > stuff as he can get away with, i do not know what possessed > him to try uninstalling gnome, maybe because it was grinding > his turbo-charged computer into the ground and he had enough > of it thrashing about on an overloaded GUI and got rid of it. yeah, well like i said, i agree that debconf should attempt to fall back on alternative frontends in case of failure (or maybe just default to Noninteractive or Readline). > even the commands that you very kindly pointed me to require > information that is lacking before they can be of value. debconf-show debconf gives you a list of debconf settings for the debconf package echo set debconf/frontend yourfrontendofchoicehere | debconf-communicate will set the frontend accordingly hth sean
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