Bug#93158: should depend on a menu UI?

[Zooko Ozoko <zooko@imp.mad-scientist.com>]

Package: apt
Version: 0.5.3
Severity: serious

I got these error messages:

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debconf: failed to initialize frontend: Dialog
debconf: (Neither whiptail nor dialog are installed, so the dialog based frontend cannot be used. at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/FrontEnd/Dialog.pm line 45, <> line 2.)

debconf: failed to initialize frontend: Slang
debconf: (Unable to load Term::Stool -- is libterm-stool-perl installed?)

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so I installed libterm-stool-perl and then I got this message:


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debconf: failed to initialize frontend: Dialog
debconf: (Neither whiptail nor dialog are installed, so the dialog based frontend cannot be used. at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/FrontEnd/Dialog.pm line 45, <> line 1.)
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So then I installed dialog.


So should apt depend on dialog or what?


Regards,

Zooko

P.S.  apt is awesome.  Everyone should use apt.

-- System Information
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux imp 2.2.18 #2 Sat Jan 27 16:20:46 PST 2001 i686

Versions of packages apt depends on:
hi  libc6                        2.2.2-4     GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
hi  libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2       1:2.95.3-10 The GNU stdc++ library