Upgrade manager and debconf GNOME frontend

[Marius Gedminas]

On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 08:02:56PM -0500, evangelion wrote:
> Marius Gedminas Wrote: 
> > Ubuntu Upgrade Manager is slick.
> > 
> > I've noticed that when I use it to upgrade packages, I see the
> > following
> > lines at the top of the terminal output:
> > 
> > debconf: unable to initialize frontend: Gnome
> > debconf: (*Unable to load Gnome -- is libgnome2-perl installed?*)
> > debconf: falling back to frontend: Dialog
> > 
> > Is there a dependency missing?
> > 
> > Marius Gedminas
> 
> Yes, you're missing libgnome2-perl, install it via apt or synaptic and
> the gnome front end will work.

I know that, but thanks anyway.  My point was: shouldn't this be done
automatically?

Marius Gedminas
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