What did I just ruin?

Kevin O'Gorman kogorman at gmail.com
Tue Jul 10 03:38:45 UTC 2018


Perrhaps I should add that apt-get had the --quiet and --assume-yes options

On Mon, Jul 9, 2018 at 8:37 PM, Kevin O'Gorman <kogorman at gmail.com> wrote:

> I may have outsmarted myself.
>
> I was about to upgrade packages and I wanted to capture the plethora of
> messages I expected
> this to produce, so I did it under script(1).  It captured all right, but
> I'm a bit worried by a thing it
> captured a few times...
>
> For instance, at the end of fetching packages....  it's got a problem with
> Dialog (whatever that is)
> and it's not clear that its workaround worked.
>
> -- Get:75 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/main amd64
> ntp-doc all 1:4.2.8p4+dfsg-3ubuntu5.9 [1,169 kB]
> Get:76 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/main amd64
> rfkill amd64 0.5-1ubuntu3.1 [8,530 B]
> Fetched 281 MB in 37s (7,395 kB/s)
> debconf: unable to initialize frontend: Dialog
> debconf: (Dialog frontend will not work on a dumb terminal, an emacs shell
> buffer, or without a controlling terminal.)
> debconf: falling back to frontend: Readline
> Extracting templates from packages: 100%
> Preconfiguring packages ...
> (Reading database ... 258286 files and directories currently installed.)
> Preparing to unpack .../libquadmath0_5.4.0-6ubuntu1~16.04.10_amd64.deb ...
> Can anyone clarify?
>
> ++
> Kevin O'Gorman
> #define QUESTION ((bb) || (!bb))   /* Shakespeare */
>
> Please consider the environment before printing this email.
>



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Kevin O'Gorman
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