[Synaptic-devel] TERM not set?

[Andreas Schmidt]

Hi,

for some time now, synaptic apparently does not set the TERM variable.  
When it comes to installing new packages, I get the following warning:

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WARNING: terminal is not fully functional

debconf: unable to initialize frontend: Dialog
debconf: (TERM is not set, so the dialog frontend is not usable.)
debconf: falling back to frontend: Readline
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Of course, it is quite easy to start synaptic without this warning from  
the commandline:

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TERM=xterm synaptic-pkexec
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However, this only works from the commandline. I have a launcher for  
synaptic on the panel (using current MATE from sid). If I change the  
command there from

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synaptic-pkexec
*****

to the line above, nothing happens -- synaptic won't even start.

Now, I just found out that I can get it to start using the launcher  
when I edit /usr/bin/synaptic-pkexec and set TERM there:

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#!/bin/sh
TERM=xterm pkexec "/usr/sbin/synaptic" "$@"
*****

Would it be possible to include this small change in the next version?

Best regards,

Andreas

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