[Aptitude-devel] Bug#817276: aptitude: cannot install packages on a dumb terminal

[Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo]

Control: tags -1 + pending


Hi Sven,

2016-03-09 17:30 Sven Joachim:
>Package: aptitude
>Version: 0.7.8-1
>Severity: normal
>
>The fix for bug #317928 has the annoying side effect that aptitude
>refuses to perform various actions on the commandline on a dumb
>terminal, e.g. "aptitude install <package>" or "aptitude safe-upgrade"
>now fail with the error message
>
>aptitude cannot run in ncurses mode with terminal type "dumb"
>
>This breaks running pdebuild from within Emacs, for instance.

Thanks for the report.  I forbade this only if "visual-preview" is
requested (it was the initial intention).

I also added a few more checks now also to forbid launching solution
screens and previews from the command-line in dumb terms.


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