"Dialog frontend will not work on a dumb terminal"

[Derek Broughton]

Frank McCormick wrote:

> On Wed, 11 Jul 2007 18:46:49 -0700
> "Scott (angrykeyboarder)" <geekboy at angrykeyboarder.com> wrote:
> 
>> I'm not sure when I first started seeing this response in Synaptic's
>> terminal window, but I think it was in edgy. I'm running Feisty now.
>> It's not always been this way.
>> 
>> Dialog frontend will not work on a dumb terminal - falling back to
>> readline"
> 
>    I started seeing this in Debian Sid on my machine about a week
> ago...right after a Synaptic upgrade.
> But it doesn't seem to affect installing or removing packages.

It's just the way that the underlying software (debconf?) tries to talk to
the interactive user.  There's no real need to be sending that message - it
tries various methods and, in this particular case, ends up using readline.  
-- 
derek