On Mon, Jul 01, 2013 at 03:40:15PM -0500, chris dunn wrote: > I upgraded from Wheezy to testing a couple of weeks or so ago. > > Ever since (or possibly before) when I open Synaptic for any purpose, > and cause the terminal window to open in order to review the changes > taking place, I get a shrunken dialog window that is almost unusable. > The window can be re-sized but that is something of a nuisance. > > The messages first appearing in the dialog window are : > > debconf: unable to initialize frontend: Dialog > debconf: (Dialog frontend requires a screen at least 13 lines tall and > 31 columns wide.) debconf: falling back to frontend: Readline > > Can any kind soul provide a pointer as to how to correct the problem?
As root on the command line: root@tal:~# dpkg-reconfigure debconf Try different options until it is as you desire it. -- "If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing." --- Malcolm X -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130702030358.GB13359@tal
