Re: ssh access to etch

[Douglas Allan Tutty <dtutty@porchlight.ca>]

On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 11:13:20AM +0100, Chris Robinson wrote:
> 
> I am trying to install packages etc to etch using ssh.
> 
> In previous versions of debian (woody and sarge) I have been able to 
> answer question which filled the screen and had <OK> or <Y> 0r <N>.  
> These questions appeared as a result of apt-get and would involve 
> configuring packages.
> 
> I am using vt100 emulation.
> 

I wonder if you've run into a LANG change.  Prior to Etch, I didn't use
locales on any of my boxes.  When I got a new box and installed Etch, it
uses UTF-8 by default so now my LANG=en_CA.UTF-8 while the box from
which I ssh is still LANG=C.  Anything other than plain text got garbled
so before I did anything like run mutt or mc, I had to issue LANG=C and
all was fine.

So if you still want to use the dialog interface instead of readline,
try issuing LANG=C before you run dpkg-reconfigure or anything to do
with apt.

Doug.