Quote Originally Posted by rickenbacherus
Just download debconf from debian.org and install it with

dpkg -i debconf-english 1.3.8

Of course you can use whichever version of debconf you like.

I downloaded debconf-english_1.3.8_all.deb

and did dpkg -i

but the message it prompts is:

diversion-file has to too long lines or EOF [i]

any idea how to solve that? thanks martin