[Bug 450093] Re: whiptail failing in a MultiTerm buffer in Emacs
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Thu Sep 8 16:01:02 UTC 2011
** Changed in: newt (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Confirmed
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Title:
whiptail failing in a MultiTerm buffer in Emacs
Status in “newt” package in Ubuntu:
Confirmed
Bug description:
I am running on Ubuntu karmic (development branch) release 9.10.
If I run "sudo apt-get install mysql-server-5.1" from within a
MultiTerm buffer in Emacs, I am not prompted for the root password.
Instead I see the following error:
Unknown terminal: eterm-color
Check the TERM environment variable.
Also make sure that the terminal is defined in the terminfo database.
Alternatively, set the TERMCAP environment variable to the desired
termcap entry.
debconf: whiptail output the above errors, giving up!
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/mysql-server-5.1_5.1.37-1ubuntu5_i386.deb (--unpack):
subprocess new pre-installation script returned error exit status 255
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/mysql-server-5.1_5.1.37-1ubuntu5_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
When I run the same command from a GNOME Terminal session, I am
prompted for the root password and MySQL installs correctly.
I don't know that it's reasonable for apt-get to support being run
from within MultiTerm, but the error message is only helpful to users
with an understanding of what the termcap library is & why it might be
failing.
Perhaps apt-get could raise a warning if it's being run on an
unsupported terminal type?
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