dpkg-preconfigure8
Let packages ask questions prior to their installation
Usage
dpkg-preconfigure [options]
package.deb
dpkg-preconfigure --apt
Overview
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
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-ftype, --frontend=type -
Select the frontend to use.
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-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.
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--terse -
Enables terse output mode. This affects only some frontends.
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--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";};
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-h, --help -
Display usage help.
Releases
13 releases since Debian 2.2 (Potato); the text changed 12 times.
--help since Debian 3.0 (Woody);
--terse since Debian 6.0 (Squeeze);
-f since Debian 3.0 (Woody);
-h since Debian 3.0 (Woody);
-p since Debian 3.0 (Woody).
-ftype until Debian 2.2 (Potato);
-pvalue until Debian 2.2 (Potato).