Re: Slang frontend to debconf

[cjw44@flatline.org.uk (Colin Watson)]

Martin Fluch <fluch@rock.helsinki.fi> wrote:
>does anybody know, which packages I need to install in order to get the
>slang frontend of debconf running under woody. Till now I get only the
>following output:
>
>root@seneca:/home/mfluch> dpkg-reconfigure debconf
>debconf: failed to initialize frontend: Slang
>debconf: falling back to frontend: Dialog
>
>dpkg -l "*slang*" shows, that I have installed the following packages:
>
>ii  slang1         1.3.9-1        The S-Lang programming library - runtime ver
>ii  slang1-dev     1.3.9-1        The S-Lang programming library, development 

I had the same problem until your post prompted me to investigate it
(thanks!). You need libterm-stool-perl, which is in debconf's
Recommends: field; like me, you must have missed out on it being
installed at some point, perhaps by installing debconf with apt-get ...

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Colin Watson                                     [cjw44@flatline.org.uk]