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DPKG-PRECONFIGURE

NAME
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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

-f type , --frontend= type

Select the frontend to use.

-p value , --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.

AUTHOR

Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>