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Re: Synaptic - debconf: TERM not set



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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