dpkg-preconfigure
let packages ask questions prior to their installation
see also :
debconf
Synopsis
dpkg-preconfigure [options] package.deb
dpkg-preconfigure --apt
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description
dpkg-preconfigure
lets packages ask questions before they are installed. It
operates on a set of debian packages, and all packages that
use debconf will have their config script run so they can
examine the system and ask questions.
options
-ftype,
--frontend=type
Select the frontend to use.
-pvalue,
--priority=value
Set the lowest priority of
questions you are interested in. Any questions with a
priority below the selected priority will be ignored and
their default answers will be used.
--terse
Enables terse output mode. This
affects only some frontends.
--apt
Run in apt mode. It will expect
to read a set of package filenames from stdin, rather than
getting them as parameters. Typically this is used to make
apt run dpkg-preconfigure on all packages before they are
installed. To do this, add something like this to
/etc/apt/apt.conf:
// Pre-configure all packages before
// they are installed.
DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs {
"dpkg-preconfigure --apt --priority=low";
};
-h,
--help
Display usage help.
see also
debconf
author
Joey Hess
<joeyh[:at:]debian[:dot:]org>