After a recent upgrade (testing distribution), Synaptic started showing
this message:

debconf: unable to initialize frontend: Dialog
debconf: (TERM is not set, so the dialog frontend is not usable.)
debconf: falling back to frontend: Readline

for every package or upgrade being installed.

I do not get this message when running something like dpkg-reconfigure
from a terminal window.

Synaptic creates its own console window so I don't know how to set the
TERM environment variable. Is there some way to set it or is Synaptic
broken?

This happens on two different systems.

Thanks,
Chris.


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On Mon, Sep 10, 2007 at 11:39:58AM -0400, Chris Capon wrote:
> After a recent upgrade (testing distribution), Synaptic started showing
> this message:
>
> debconf: unable to initialize frontend: Dialog
> debconf: (TERM is not set, so the dialog frontend is not usable.)
> debconf: falling back to frontend: Readline
>
> for every package or upgrade being installed.
>
> I do not get this message when running something like dpkg-reconfigure from
> a terminal window.
>
> Synaptic creates its own console window so I don't know how to set the TERM
> environment variable. Is there some way to set it or is Synaptic broken?
>
> This happens on two different systems.

Maybe it's #422427?

Regards,
Andrei
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