kmfmu wrote: > With my recent potato installation, when I install a package > that requires debconf I get these errors: > > debconf: failed to initialize frontend: Slang > debconf: falling back to frontend: Dialog
You're not going to get that message unless you are using debconf from unstable. > but then I'm back to the shell prompt, no debconf screen. Perfectly normal -- debconf had no questions to ask you. Install libterm-stool-perl, from unstable, if you want the slang frontend to work. -- see shy jo