Jim Woodruff wrote:
Hmm. I've tried to install both of these ways, and it's worked fine for me; with dpkg, the debconf stuff is done during postinst.I'm running a DEC Alpha using Debian 3.0 (unstable). I have downloaded the libots, cpml-ev5, cxml-ev5, ccc, and cxx rpm packages from Compaq. When I "apt-get install" the cxx package (assuming it will retrieve all the dependency files from Debian, it exits with the following error: "You are running in non-interactive mode and the Compaq needs to prompt ... Please re-install it in interactive mode." I've also tried "dpkg -i" with the downloaded Debian packages with the same results. I've also tried converting the Red Hat rpm file with alien but it does not build correctly and the resultant .deb package doesn't install correctly. How dow I install these packages interactively?
How is debconf configured for you -- which front end? dpkg-reconfigure debconfThe packages need to interact with the user via debconf, so if you have debconf configured non-interactive, that's the problem...
I'm ccing this to debian-alpha in case folk there are aware of other issues I don't know about. I hope you don't mind...
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