Re: Shrunken Synaptic dialog window
On Mon, Jul 01, 2013 at 03:40:15PM -0500, chris dunn wrote:
> I upgraded from Wheezy to testing a couple of weeks or so ago.
>
> Ever since (or possibly before) when I open Synaptic for any purpose,
> and cause the terminal window to open in order to review the changes
> taking place, I get a shrunken dialog window that is almost unusable.
> The window can be re-sized but that is something of a nuisance.
>
> The messages first appearing in the dialog window are :
>
> debconf: unable to initialize frontend: Dialog
> debconf: (Dialog frontend requires a screen at least 13 lines tall and
> 31 columns wide.) debconf: falling back to frontend: Readline
>
> Can any kind soul provide a pointer as to how to correct the problem?
As root on the command line:
root@tal:~# dpkg-reconfigure debconf
Try different options until it is as you desire it.
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