On Mon, Sep 10, 2007 at 11:39:58AM -0400, Chris Capon wrote: > After a recent upgrade (testing distribution), Synaptic started showing > this message: > > debconf: unable to initialize frontend: Dialog > debconf: (TERM is not set, so the dialog frontend is not usable.) > debconf: falling back to frontend: Readline > > for every package or upgrade being installed. > > I do not get this message when running something like dpkg-reconfigure from > a terminal window. > > Synaptic creates its own console window so I don't know how to set the TERM > environment variable. Is there some way to set it or is Synaptic broken? > > This happens on two different systems. Maybe it's #422427? Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein)
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