[lubuntu-devel] Bug report 2129041: Qterminal package claims to provide xterm but does not actually do it

[Fritz Hudnut]

On Sun, Oct 26, 2025 at 5:00 AM <lubuntu-devel-request at lists.ubuntu.com>
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>    1. Re:  Bug report 2129041: Qterminal package claims to provide
>       xterm but does not actually do it (Aaron Rainbolt)
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> Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2025 00:26:15 -0500
> From: Aaron Rainbolt <arraybolt3 at gmail.com>
> To: Nio Wiklund <nio.wiklund at gmail.com>
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> Subject: Re: [lubuntu-devel] Bug report 2129041: Qterminal package
>         claims to provide xterm but does not actually do it
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> On Fri, Oct 24, 2025 at 2:48 AM Nio Wiklund <nio.wiklund at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Aaron,
> >
> > The implementation of qterminal in the Lubuntu versions 25.10 and
> > Resolute seems to create problems with my mkusb.
> >
> > 1. Is it correct that the qterminal package claims to provide xterm but
> > does not actually do it?
>
> Uh, no, that does not seem correct to me. I'm guessing that was added
> in an attempt to work around some variant of
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1113744, but that
> bug has reared its head again and is now installing Alacritty on the
> Lubuntu ISO anyway, so there's not much point in keeping the xterm
> provides here. xterm would probably be better to have installed
> "incorrectly" than Alacritty.
>
> > 2. Or is there actually an xterm hidden somewhere? In that case how can
> > it be activated?
>
> Not to my awareness, no.
>
> > 3. As you can see in the bug report and the thread at Discourse
> >
> > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/qterminal/+bug/2129041
> >
> >
> https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/how-to-make-lubuntu-install-xterm-when-listed-as-depends/70135
> >
> > 3.1 there is a discussion involving a few people about qterminal's
> > policy about xterm,
>
> Yeah, I think that should be undone. I can probably do that in a few
> hours (it's past midnight here so I'll want to work on this in the
> morning).
>
> > 3.2 I have modified mkusb to cope with the situation by telling the user
> > that it wants xterm to be installed (when needed). I think this can be
> > good enough for the short-life version 25.10, but please help us fix a
> > better solution for 26.04 LTS.
>
> Will do. Thank you for letting us know, I didn't know this was
> happening until I got this email and saw the Discourse thread.
>
> --
> Aaron
>
> > Best regards
> > Olle alias Nio alias sudodus
> >
> > ps/
> > Can you help prolong my membership in Lubuntu Members? I intend to be
> > active during the developing phase of Resolute, at least as an iso
> tester.
> > /ds
>
>
> Gents:

I have mkusb/dus installed on my 25.10 version of Lubuntu . . . not having
time to read through the bug reports . . . but I just launched mkusb, which
went to dus . . . opening an "X" rated terminal window . . . worked through
the GUI up until selecting the action . . . .  Seemed to be in working
order??

I got to 25.10 by editing sources . . . possibly not removing the mkusb
item from the repo???

Stuff to do this morning, but happy to check under the hood sometime coming
up . . . days . . .

F
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