sean finney wrote: > not to minimize this problem (yes, debconf should fall back to another > frontend if one fails), but i believe there still is a way to fix > your problem. check out debconf-communicate(1) and debconf-show(1). > you can use them to get/set debconf db variables (such as > debconf/frontend) I don't really know what you guys are talking about, debconf *does* fall back to other frontends should any fail. root@dragon:/home/joey>dpkg-reconfigure debconf -fgnome debconf: unable to initialize frontend: Gnome debconf: (Unable to load Gnome -- is libgnome-perl installed?) debconf: falling back to frontend: Dialog -- see shy jo
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