On Tue, 10 Jan 2006 19:59:57 -0500 "David R. Litwin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> During a normal Sid upgrade to the latest xorg, some thing went wrong and it > didn't work. When it rebooted and dropped me straight to a terminal, I said, > no problem; I'll apt-get install xserver-xorg. It didn't work. I removed X > (since it never compiled properly in the first place) and tried to reinstall > it. It needs debconf and friends. Well, I had set dpkg-reconfigure debconf > to use KDE-style dialogues. That's very nice, but now I need to use it with > out X so that I can get X. > > So, the question is: How do I reconfigure debconf to use dialogue (or which > ever the option it is not to use KDE or Gnome style dialogues)? > > Thanks kindly in advance. > > (And yes, I know removing X wasn't so smart. I admitt, I gaffed a bit. > Please don't boil me in a cauldron.... ;) ) ummm... its in your subject line. though you need sudo or to be root. dpkg-reconfigure debconf then select dialog. A > > -- > —A watched bread-crumb never boils. > —My hover-craft is full of eels. > —[...]and that's the he and the she of it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
