On ven, 2007-11-09 at 10:13 -0700, Shaun Jackman wrote:
> The debconf dialog works for me. It displays the text
> 
>         Eagle must be run once as root to install the license key
> file.
>         Run eagle now to install the license key file?
> 
> Have you installed eagle before, or perhaps your debconf priority
> threshold is set too low? Try purging eagle and reinsalling it.

I didn't touch my debconf priority settings, and the debconf note wasn't
displayed at all.
> 
>         apt-get remove --purge eagle && apt-get install eagle
> 
> When eagle is installed using sudo from a user session running X --
> sudo apt-get install eagle -- eagle runs as root and the license key
> is generated correctly.

I used sudo from my user X session, so it had no problem running eagle,
generating license stuff. But then, it creates eagle/ and .eaglerc in my
user homedir, but with root ownership. And anyway running a complete app
in postinst is just not possible, imho.

Cheers,
-- 
Yves-Alexis

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