Upgrade manager and debconf GNOME frontend

[David M. Carney]

On Wed, 2005-02-16 at 04:56 +0200, Marius Gedminas wrote:
>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

Upgrade manager?

David

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