dpkg-preconfigure.8cdebconf

Langue: en

Version: Debconf (debian - 07/07/09)

Section: 8 (Commandes administrateur)

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 cdebconf 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 {
         "dpkg-preconfigure --apt --priority=low";
  };
 
 
-h, --help
Display usage help.

SEE ALSO

cdebconf(7)

AUTHOR

Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>

HISTORY

This manpage was ``borrowed'' from debconf.