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Re: aptitude misconfigure?



On Oct 26, 2013, at 9:34 AM, Jape Person wrote:

> On 10/26/2013 11:09 AM, Chris Bannister wrote:
>> On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 09:19:32AM -0400, Jape Person wrote:
>>> 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
>> 
>> LOL, I believe he is referring to the strange characters!
>> 
> 
> OIC. I guess I am the strange character in this case.
> 
> The term "locales" should have been a hint.
> 
> And I thought I had a chance to be useful -- as something other than comic relief, I mean.

My apologies for being unclear, but comic relief is always welcome. 

Yes, it's the strange characters that I'm asking for help with: What makes Aptitude build dialog boxes out of lower case letters (see above in original post, from a Wheezy box) instead of lines (see below, approximately, from a Lenny box)? And how can I get to do lines instead?

               ┌─────────────────────┐
               │Really quit Aptitude?│
               │  [ Yes ]    [ No ]  │
               └─────────────────────┘

I looked for the Aptitude prefs before in /etc but couldn't find them. It didn't occur to me that they were in the CTL-T menus. I didn't see anything in there that might help...

-- 
Glenn English
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