Broken dpkg dialogs

[Derek Broughton]

Chris Dean wrote:

> 
> I'm having a problem with the dialog boxes that are drawn when I use
> dpkg (or apt-get).  All the information is there, but they aren't
> being drawn correctly.  There are control characters instead of the
> nice lines I'm used to seeing.
> 
> I'm ssh-ing in from a Mac, so that could have something to do with it.
> I have tried multiple terminal programs on the Mac, and they all work
> fine on my plain Debian boxes, and are all broken on my Ubuntu boxes.
> 
> Any ideas on how to fix this?

I believe it's related to what your SSH client announces as its terminal
type.  I can't remember how I fixed this, but after sshing into your box,
echo $TERM and see what it says.
-- 
derek