With my recent potato installation, when I install a package that requires debconf I get these errors:
debconf: failed to initialize frontend: Slang debconf: falling back to frontend: Dialog but then I'm back to the shell prompt, no debconf screen. I have these packages installed: whiptail 0.50-7 slang1 1.3.9-1 dialog 0.9a-20000118-3 debconf 0.3.46 Reinstalling debconf doesn't help. Any hints?