Re: aptitude misconfigure?

[Morten Bo Johansen <mbj@spamcop.net>]

On 2013-10-26 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

You should look at your $TERM variable. From the command prompt issue
an "echo $TERM" on each of your boxes, note what it returns and where
it works and where not. Also distinguish between X Window and console
environments. Many xterm-like terminal descriptions will result in
garbled line drawing on the console.

  Morten