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emacs24 package

  1. Bug #1285864
  2. Comment #6

Comment 6 for bug 1285864

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era (era) wrote :

I can confirm that M-x xterm in emacs24 sets TERM to eterm-color when launched out of the box on Ubuntu 15.04. (In the regular terminal, it's simply xterm.)

Whether this should be fixed in the packaging (make it not set eterm-color) or dependencies (pull in ncurses-term) is an open question, though.

Inside xterm, e.g. "sudo dpkg-reconfigure -plow dictionaries-common" is a way to trigger the bug. With ncurses-term installed, I get a "nice" colorful ncurses dialog box; without it, dpkg-reconfigure aborts.

Another obvious workaround is to specify a nongraphical Debconf front-end.

sudo DEBIAN_FRONTEND=readline dpkg-reconfigure -plow dictionaries-common