Re: LIRC configuration problem (Ubuntu 18.04 MATE)

Hi, thanks for the info and sorry the delay. I thought about the 
situation and came to following idea:

I tried to reproduce where the error comes from.

I downloaded the original Boot-Install-Image-File: 
ubuntu-mate-18.04-desktop-amd64.iso
sha256-checksum: 
7bb3607d6fa3f6791c24d8236a0953498081b0ed21454b8aa199bf6a40701fef

I booted the Ubuntu 18.04. LTS iso-image

Ubuntu showed the „try or install“ window

I selected „try ubuntu“ to have a clean state of the ubuntu os without 
any possible misconfiguration. This means that there is no 
misconfiguration of my existing ubuntu installation because the "bug" 
happens also on the Live-CD.

the steps i did:

I opened Terminal & typed
sudo apt-get update

I Installed the lirc package and its dependencies via terminal
sudo apt-get install lirc

No config-menu showed up.

and I entered following command to reconfigure lirc

sudo dpkg-reconfigure lirc

no lirc-conf-menu showed up and no error-message. Just nothing.

Any ideas how to solve this or what I can do?

Thanks and regards,
Thomas

Am 20.05.18 um 19:43 schrieb Benoît-Pierre DEMAINE:
> Your matter is Debian specific.
>
> It may not be a bug, depending on how you have initiated your 
> installation (the very very first steps of installation; the verbosity 
> of apt and dpkg can be tuned at the time you boot the install CD). 
> This verbosity level can be adjusted later, after install, but I don't 
> know how. I just know there are levels which are designed to ask 
> absolutely no questions for admins who script installation/update of 
> machines on very large scale. You may have tuned your box for a low 
> verbosity level by accident.
>
> This can also be tuned by env variables and arguments.
>
> Here are some examples:
>
> echo 'Europe/Paris' >/etc/timezone
> timedatectl set-timezone 'Europe/Paris'
> dpkg-reconfigure --frontend noninteractive tzdata
> DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive
> apt-mark hold raspberrypi-bootloader
> aptitude hold raspberrypi-bootloader
> apt-get update
> debconf-set-selections <<< "console-data 
> console-keymaps-amiga/keymap    select
> [we don't care details]
> console-data    console-data/keymap/policy      select  Select keymap 
> from arch list"
> /usr/bin/apt-get --no-remove --yes install apt apt-utils
> /usr/bin/apt-get --no-remove --yes install vim
>
> ... I have to use several env vars, and conf files, and arguments.
>
> This will guide you to documentations where you can ask for high 
> verbosity.
>
> On 14/05/18 18:27, [email protected] wrote:
>> Hello Community,
>>
>> I'm running a Ubuntu 18.04 MATE Installation.
>>
>> I Installed the lirc package and its dependencies via terminal
>>
>> */sudo apt-get install lirc/*
>>
>> No config-menu showed up.
>>
>> and I entered following command to reconfigure lirc
>>
>> *sudo dpkg-reconfigure lirc*
>>
>> no lirc-conf-menu showed up and no error-message. Just nothing.
>>
>> I can't find any information on the internet to solve this problem.
>>
>> Cloud you help me how to solve the problem?
>>
>> Thank you.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Thomas
>>
>>
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