Friday, August 18, 2017
Ubuntu 12 04 12 10 rcconf needs dialog or whiptail
Ubuntu 12 04 12 10 rcconf needs dialog or whiptail
RCCONF is a TUI (text user interface) utility that lets you configure the services and daemons that are launched at system start-up.
When you install it on Ubuntu 12.04 / 12.10 and then launch, it returns the following error:
"rcconf needs dialog or whiptail"
Dialog and whiptail are utilities to display user-friendly dialog boxes from shell scripts. Despite the fact that whiptail comes preinstalled with the system, rcconf doesnt run.
Solution 1:
install dialog:
sudo apt-get install dialog
Now launch a terminal, and run rcconf.
Solution 2:
Whiptail is already there, but not in the folder the apps try to launch it from (see the comment by Viajemotu below). All you need to do is to create a symlink to the app in the /usr/bin directory. To do so, execute:
$ sudo ln -s /bin/whiptail /usr/bin/whiptail
After this, run rcconf.
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