Re: debconf

[Mircea Luca <mluca@canada.com>]

Rob VanFleet wrote:
> 
> On Sat, Jan 06, 2001 at 08:06:19PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote:
> > Rob VanFleet wrote:
> > > How does one go about changing the message priority in debconf?
> >
> > You may be looking for 'dpkg-reconfigure debconf' -- without a bit more
> > explination I can't tell for sure.
> 
> Sorry about the vagueness.  Basically, when I did my initial install,
> debconf was set to only give me high priority messages, I would like to
> set this to low.  I did dpkg-reconfigure debconf-tiny and I got no
> errors, but nothing happened either.
> 
> -Rob
> 
 Hi

what I do usually is

apt-get install dialog

dpkg-reconfigure --frontend=dialog debconf

you can use --frontend=text as well but IMHO dialog looks better.