[Hoary] Syanptic, console debconf errors

[michellembrodeur]

Eric Dunbar Wrote: 
> Hello all, when I use Synaptic to do a dist-upgrade (I presume that's

> what it's doing), the console outputs the following 'error' quite

> frequently:

> 

> debconf: unable to initialize frontend: Gnome

> debconf: (Unable to load Gnome -- is libgnome2-perl installed?)

> debconf: falling back to frontend: Dialog

> 

> Hmm. I'll try installing libgnome2-perl.

> 

> But, if this is an error that was missed somehow through all the

> automagic upgrades, perhaps the package maintainers might want to

> check and see if it's supposed to be automagically sent as a

> dist-upgrade?

> 

> Eric.

> 

> We get the same error. Does anyone know how to fix this. We are using
> Kubuntu(KDE) not gnome.

> 

> thanks

> 

> Michelle


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