Hi, On Thu, Feb 12, 2026 at 03:48:10PM -0500, Davidson wrote: > $ wget > https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/c/cdebconf/cdebconf-newt-udeb_0.251ubuntu1_amd64.udeb > $ dpkg-deb -x cdebconf-newt-udeb_0.251ubuntu1_amd64.udeb ./
[…] > # mkdir /etc/newt/ > > copied ./etc/newt/palette.dark to /etc/newt/, changed its owner from > the downloading user to root:root, checked that its permissions were > sane > > and then tested with > > # NEWT_COLORS_FILE=/etc/newt/palette.dark dpkg-reconfigure locales > > which looked satisfactory to me. Excellent work, thanks! I suspect that palette.dark does exist somewhere in Debian as the high contrast text installer seems to use the same colour scheme and interface, but this is great for now. If you do not beat me to it then I will write this up on the Debian wiki at some point as this was too hard to find and seems like it might be useful for more people. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting
