Re: [Synaptic-devel] TERM not set?

[Andreas Schmidt]

Hi, Michael!

On 01/25/2016 09:37:09 AM, Michael Vogt wrote:
> 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.
address@hidden:~# dpkg -l | egrep "synaptic\>"
ii  synaptic                                      
0.83+b1                                i386         Graphical package  
manager
address@hidden:~#

On both my laptop (i386) and my desktop (amd64) computer I use Debian  
sid. On both systems, TERM is not set.


> 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.
Not sure if that matters: I use the current version of the  MATE  
desktop environment. If you need any further information, feel free to  
ask!

Best regards

Andreas

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