On Fri, 13 Feb 2026, Andy Smith wrote:
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!
My pleasure. Thanks to yourself for the idea.
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.
Cool.
If you do not beat me to it
Very unlikely, for the wiki is dark and full of horrors.
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.
I thank you for your service.
