[Aptitude-devel] Bug#819942: command line mode war against TERM=dumb

[Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo]

Control: forcemerge 817276 -1


Hi,

2016-04-04 02:58 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson:
>Package: aptitude
>Version: 0.7.8-1
>
>I am using a emacs shell-mode window.
>
># aptitude install xserver-xorg-video-cirrus=1:1.5.3-1+b1
>aptitude cannot run in ncurses mode with terminal type "dumb"
>
>So must use:
># TERM=linux aptitude install xserver-xorg-video-cirrus=1:1.5.3-1+b1
># TERM= aptitude install xserver-xorg-video-cirrus=1:1.5.3-1+b1
># unset TERM; aptitude install xserver-xorg-video-cirrus=1:1.5.3-1+b1
>
>You don't allow TERM=dumb (bug) but allow no TERM at all (fine).
>
>$ TERM= aptitude
>Error opening terminal: unknown.
>
>That is fine.
>
>But that is ncurses mode, and what I was doing wasn't.

This looks like a duplicate of #817276, merging.


Cheers.
-- 
Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <manuel.montezelo at gmail.com>