On Sat, Aug 29, 2015 at 03:01:26PM +0100, Dave Turner wrote: > On 29/08/15 01:37, Isaac Dunham wrote: > >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?
> >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) > ncurses-term and ncurses-base are installed. > the output of > > env |grep -e TERM -e LC -e LANG -e LOCALE > > TERM=xterm > LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 > LANGUAGE=en_GB:en > COLORTERM=xfce4-terminal Maybe try running aptitude with TERM=xfce and COLORTERM=xfce or go ls /usr/share/terminfo/x/xfce4-terminal? (Here, terminfo only has "xfce".) Check that you're using a UTF8 font? These are my bestt guesses; if they don't work, I'd be stumped. HTH, Isaac PS: A: Because it messes up the reading order. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
