On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 04:29:02PM +0000, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > a single error in installing then subsequently makes it impossible > to recover using ANY method, e.g. apt-get -f install, and things > get into a totally unusable state. 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) hth sean
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