Adept hangs when installing "flashplugin-nonfree"

[Timothy Miller]

Binary package hint: adept

When I tell Adept to install flashplugin-nonfree, it _appears_ to hang. I first thought it was a network problem until I clicked "show details". Then I saw that what had happened is that the installer assumed that it had a terminal and was waiting on me to accept a license.

Adept somehow needs to know that a terminal is REQUIRED. Otherwise, how is the user going to know to click show-details? There is no warning and nothing to tell the user that something is unusual going on. Instead, it just sits there and waits.

[Wolfgang Jeltsch (4cqncnl7)]

It’s not just that the user doesn’t know what’s wrong until he clicks the “Show details” button. There is also no possibility to get rid of the hanging. At least, I cannot see any way to make Adept send some input like a “Return” to debconf. I have the same hanging problem when updating a Linux kernel image under Debian 4.0.