Bug#366812: each upgrade of tex-common asks for the group again, and again
Frank Küster <frank@kuesterei.ch> wrote:
>> However the default (I've always just hit
>> ENTER in the past) doesn't work.
>>
>> ERROR
>> * * *
>> The group name you entered, , does not exist
>
> Which frontend do you use? I guess it's readline; for me, readline
> never displays any defaults, and just pressing ENTER never works, or
> maybe it works, but it always gives empty values in free-text fields.
This is explained in debconf(7), as I just learned, and it helps to
install libterm-readline-gnu-perl.
Regards, Frank
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Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX)
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