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apt-get/synaptic: debconf

Bug #29718 reported by Eric Spierings
10
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
synaptic (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Medium
Michael Vogt

Bug Description

when running apt-get/synaptic i get the following message in the first line of the terminal:

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debconf: unable to initialize frontend: Gnome
debconf: (Can't locate object method "signal connect" via package "Gtk2::Window" at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/FrontEnd/Gnome.pm line 73, <> line 5.)
debconf: falling back to frontend: Dialog
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This error appears a few times during the process of updating/installing

Revision history for this message
Michael Vogt (mvo) wrote :

Thanks for your bugreport.

Could you please check if you have libgnome2-perl installed? This is a required package for gnome frontend of debconf.

Thanks,
 Michael

Changed in synaptic:
assignee: nobody → mvo
status: Unconfirmed → Needs Info
Revision history for this message
Eric Spierings (ericspierings) wrote :

I ran an update and the problem seems to be fixed. the libgnome2-perl package was now installed. Apparently a missing dependency in the early stages.

thanks anyway for the info!

Sebastian Heinlein (glatzor)
Changed in synaptic:
status: Needs Info → Fix Released
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