Re: whiptail causing debconf problem

["Hector Oron" <hector.oron@gmail.com>]

OK - fixed. Thanks Neil.
I was missing libnewt.

2007/2/21, Neil Williams <linux@codehelp.co.uk>:
> On Wed, 21 Feb 2007 17:03:08 +0100
> "Hector Oron" <hector.oron@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > # apt-get update
> > # apt-get upgrade
> > ...
> > Do you want to continue [Y/n]?
> > Setting up dpkg-cross (1.35) ...
> > whiptail: error while loading shared libraries: libnewt.so.0.52:
>
> This is the source of the error - whiptail. (source package: newt).
> What version whiptail are you using? I've got 0.52.2-10 .
>
> > cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
> > debconf: whiptail output the above errors, giving up!
>
> > What is going wrong here ? Is dpkg-cross and apt-cross broken on
> > unstable ?
>
> No - it looks more like all debconf packages will have problems because
> something is wrong with whiptail on your test system.
>
> I've just loaded my pbuilder chroot and installed apt-cross without
> problems. I've also run whiptail without problems - within the chroot
> too. (whiptail --yesno test 10 10).
>
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>
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