Re: making debconf use whiptail

[Kenny Hitt <kennyhitt@knology.net>]

On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 10:58:25AM +0200, Mario Lang wrote:
> Kenny Hitt <kennyhitt@knology.net> writes:
> 
> > Hi.  I have a friend having problems using the dialog interface to
> > debconf.  We both run testing/unstable, but my setup uses whiptail for
> > dialogs while his system uses dialog.  Could someone tell me what to do
> > to make debconf use whiptail by default?
> 
> Just installing the whiptail package should do it automatically.
> 
We tried that, but it didn't work.  We can't uninstall dialog because
other packages specify dialog.

          Kenny