Wybo Dekker says: >Hi, > >After having installed debian for the first time and logging in as >root I got the opportunity to install packages with dselect. However, >when dselect started, it gave the message: > >error opening terminal con80x25 > >and quit, leaving me with an almost empty system. >The TERM variable was indeed con80x25. Changing it to "console" did'nt help. >Does anybody know what I did wrong? > This didn't happen to me, so I don't know what's wrong. Did you just set=TERM or did you also export it? Outside X my TERM echoes "linux" not console.
Anyway, just to get started, you could also cd in the dirctory where you've the .deb files and say dpkg -i <pack>; this isn't comfortable, but does get you started. HTH ciccio
