[Bug 450093] Re: whiptail failing in a MultiTerm buffer in Emacs

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** 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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