dpkg-preconfigure(8)
NAME
dpkg-preconfigure - let packages ask questions prior to their
installation
SYNOPSIS
dpkg-preconfigure [options] package.deb dpkg-preconfigure --apt
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
AUTHOR
- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>