Bug#320201: debconf: should fallback to teletype frontend if TERM does not have correct value
Eugeniy Meshcheryakov wrote: 29 липня 2005 о 19:40 -0400 Joey Hess написав(-ла): Any idea of a good way to check for this? Note that it would need to work using only the packages in base. This should work (tput is from ncurses-bin): if tput init /dev/null 21; then echo Run dialog frontend else echo Run teletype frontend fi Examples: $ TERM=linux tput init /dev/null 21; echo $? 0 $ TERM=cvgfdvfdbrt tput init /dev/null 21; echo $? 3 Thanks, that looks fine, even the priorities allow it. I do need to decide if it's worth adding a dependency on ncurses-bin just to test for this edge case. -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Bug#320201: debconf: should fallback to teletype frontend if TERM does not have correct value
29 липня 2005 о 19:40 -0400 Joey Hess написав(-ла): Any idea of a good way to check for this? Note that it would need to work using only the packages in base. This should work (tput is from ncurses-bin): if tput init /dev/null 21; then echo Run dialog frontend else echo Run teletype frontend fi Examples: $ TERM=linux tput init /dev/null 21; echo $? 0 $ TERM=cvgfdvfdbrt tput init /dev/null 21; echo $? 3 -- Eugeniy Meshcheryakov Kyiv National Taras Shevchenko University Information and Computing Centre http://icc.univ.kiev.ua signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Bug#320201: debconf: should fallback to teletype frontend if TERM does not have correct value
Eugeniy Meshcheryakov wrote: Currently if TERM variable have value that whiptail does not understand installation of packages fails (real example is installation of libpango1.0-common package via ssh using mlterm terminal emulator (TERM=mlterm) when only one host have mlterm installed): # TERM=dfdfsdsd dpkg-reconfigure libpango1.0-common Cleaning up font configuration of pango... Cleaning up category xfont.. Unknown terminal: dfdfsdsd Check the TERM environment variable. Also make sure that the terminal is defined in the terminfo database. Alternatively, set the TERMCAP environment variable to the desired termcap entry. debconf: whiptail output to the above errors, giving up! It will be better to use teletype frontend in such situations. Any idea of a good way to check for this? Note that it would need to work using only the packages in base. -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital signature
