On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 08:45:51AM +0100, Dave Turner wrote: > I run devuan unstable 'ceres' on my Toshiba laptop and my iMac. > It all works with just a bit of weirdness. > I use apt-get update apt-get upgrade and then use aptitude to fix those > upgrades that get held back for various reasons. > Whenever I highlight one of the held back packages and press 'e' to examine > the various possibilities the names of the packages to be removed or > installed are mangled with block characters and/or assorted characters from > other non-Latin1 character sets. Upside down question marks etc. > > Any ideas what is going on? > > I am using the slim login manager and then depending on my mood fluxbox, > xfce, or lumina - the new desktop from pc-bsd.
What's your terminal? Are ncurses-term and ncurses-base installed? What does this command output: env |grep -e TERM -e LC -e LANG -e LOCALE I ask these because I'm *guessing* that it's one of the following: -you don't have TERM pointing to an installed & correct termcap/terminfo database -your localization is screwy -you have the wrong fonts (not likely unless it's a plain xlib terminal) HTH, Isaac Dunham _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
