Re: debconf: failed to initialize frontend: Slang

[Aaron Brashears]

What's the output of:

$ ls -l /lib/libslang.so.1

And make sure that the file being pointed to is intact.

Krzys Majewski wrote:
 
 debconf: failed to initialize frontend: Slang
 debconf: falling back to frontend: Dialog
 
 I get this when apt-get installing stuff. 'Sup yall? I've got slang1:
 
 Package: slang1
 Status: install ok installed
 Section: base
 Version: 1.3.9-1
 Depends: libc6 (= 2.1)
 
 -chris
 
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Re: debconf: failed to initialize frontend: Slang

[Mike Werner]

Krzys Majewski wrote:
 debconf: failed to initialize frontend: Slang
 debconf: falling back to frontend: Dialog
 
 I get this when apt-get installing stuff. 'Sup yall? I've got slang1:

If I remember correctly, you need to install libterm-stool-perl
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Re: debconf: failed to initialize frontend: Slang

[Joey Hess]

kmfmu wrote:
 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

You're not going to get that message unless you are using debconf from
unstable.

 but then I'm back to the shell prompt, no debconf screen.

Perfectly normal -- debconf had no questions to ask you.

Install libterm-stool-perl, from unstable, if you want the slang
frontend to work.

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