DPKG-PRECONFIGURE

DPKG-PRECONFIGURE

NAME SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION OPTIONS SEE ALSO AUTHOR

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.

--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 {

-h, --help

Display usage help.

SEE ALSO

debconf(8)?

AUTHOR

Joey Hess