Putting this back on list. Andrei ----- Forwarded message from Chris Capon <abyss@pathcom.com> ----- Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2007 01:12:21 -0400 From: Chris Capon <abyss@pathcom.com> User-Agent: Mozilla-Thunderbird 2.0.0.4 (X11/20070828) To: Andrei Popescu <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> Subject: Re: Synaptic - debconf: TERM not set The debconf lines are similar to mine so it may be the same issue. I guess I'll wait and see what the outcome of that bug is. Thanks for your input. Andrei Popescu wrote: > 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 > ----- End forwarded message -----
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