On Sun, 24 Aug 2008 12:35:16 +0300 David Baron wrote: > I usually run apt-get or synaptic (obviously) from a GUI session (KDE). The > listed changes appear as a popup window (even if there are none and the > window simply flashes and dissappears). No real problem. > > If I run from a console or from putty remotely, then the popup obviously > cannot be instantiated. The program crashes at this point with an assert and > segfault. It really should present a text message of any changes or at least > fail > gracefully
I think this issue was fixed in apt-listchanges 3.0, which falls back on the text based backends when the DISPLAY environment variable is not set. Could you confirm this in your environment please? -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
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