Re: Realplayer: You are running in non-interactive mode...

[Oliver Payne <oliver.payne@mail.com>]

On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 01:56:11AM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote:
> on Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 09:05:39AM +0000, Oliver Payne (oliver.payne@mail.com) wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 11:18:43PM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote:
> > > When trying to install/update Realplayer, I get a dialog screen during
> > > installation saying:
> > > 
> > >     The Real Player installer cannot proceed.
> > > 
> > >     You are running in non-interactive mode, and the Real Player
> > >     installer needs to prompt you to download a file for it to install,
> > >     and cannot.  The installation of this package has been aborted.
> > >     Please re-install it in interactive mode.  
> > > 
> > > Um.  Non-interactive mode of *what*, exactly, and how the fsck do I go
> > > to interactive mode?
> > 
> > Could be debconf configured to use non-interactive interface.  Maybe try
> > "dpkg-reconfigure debconf" and change it to your preferred interface.
> 
> Where is debconf documented?
> 
> Anyway, trying your suggestion, I've now got:
> 
>     [root@ego:debconf]$ dpkg-reconfigure debconf
>     (in cleanup) Can't call method "close" on an undefined value at
>     /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/DebConf/ConfModule.pm line 476 during global
>     destruction.
> 
> Thoughts?

I've never seen this error before!  Are you tracking unstable?  I'm using the
Progeny version.  My copy of /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/DebConf/ConfModule.pm 
doesn't have 476 lines!

Sorry I couldn't be of any more help.

Oliver