Re: debconf

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

gyorgyi@glu.elte.hu wrote:
>Once I chose accidentally html as dialog format for configuring
>debian packages, and now cannot change it back to a simpler
>format.    I presume the debconf package has a configuration file
>that needs to be modified, but could not find it.

Try 'dpkg-reconfigure --frontend=dialog debconf', and select dialog from
the questions it asks. Do give the slang frontend a go, if you have the
libterm-stool-perl package installed and a vaguely recent version of
debconf; it's very nice.

(debconf does have a configuration file used by all the packages that
use it - /var/lib/debconf/debconf.db - but it's easiest to use debconf
itself to change it.)

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Colin Watson                                     [cjw44@flatline.org.uk]