Upgrade manager and debconf GNOME frontend

evangelion ulist at gs1.ubuntuforums.org
Wed Feb 16 01:02:56 UTC 2005


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.


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evangelion




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