Re: aptitude misconfigure?

[Jape Person <japers@comcast.net>]

On 10/26/2013 01:18 AM, Glenn English wrote:
> There are several Debian machines around, and some of them do an odd thing in Aptitude:
>
>          lqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqk
>          xReally quit Aptitude?x
>          x  [ Yes ]    [ No ]  x
>          mqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqj
>
> and others don't.
>
> Can anyone tell me what I did to make some of them do that to their ncurses boxes?
>
> Aptitude is the only place I've seen this (yet), and I've played with locales and googled and looked at man pages -- no joy. It has something to do with the VT-100 'graphics' chars, I think, but I can't figure out how to fix it...
>
> TIA

Hi,

Check the Preferences dialog in aptitude. This feature is controlled by 
the item:

[] Prompt for confirmation at exit

Jape