Upgrade manager and debconf GNOME frontend

Michael Vogt michael.vogt at ubuntu.com
Thu Feb 17 12:06:09 UTC 2005


On Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 01:47:36AM +0200, 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?

It's a recommends right now (synaptic/update-manager work fine
without it, it's just not as nice). There is a open bug #6297 about it
with some more information.

Cheers,
 Michael

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