On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 07:50:35PM +0100, Andreas Schmidt wrote: > Hi, Hi,
thanks for your mail. > for some time now, synaptic apparently does not set the TERM variable. When > it comes to installing new packages, I get the following warning: > > ***** > WARNING: terminal is not fully functional > > debconf: unable to initialize frontend: Dialog > debconf: (TERM is not set, so the dialog frontend is not usable.) > debconf: falling back to frontend: Readline > ***** [..] What version of synaptic and what distro and what version of the distro do you use? I tink I have not seen that on debian and ubuntu yet. Any special settings that I should know about when trying to reproduce? Setting the TERM from inside synaptic for the build-in vte terminal is simpke. But I would like to understand the issue a bit better first. Cheers, Michael _______________________________________________ Synaptic-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/synaptic-devel
