Re: about apt-get assume yes

[Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>]

On Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 09:47:15AM +0800, irene7 wrote:
>   Dear all:
> 
>   i want to use apt-get to install software in a non-interactive way .
>  
>   so i am using  "apt-get -y -f install XXXX" ,
>   but it seems useless when it process to the postinst shell script
>   (like Config configure file ...)
>   it still prompts ,and ask me if i want to configure now .
> 
>   and i trid use this way :
>   " apt-get install xxx < file"
>   inside the file , i pressed a log of ENTER. 
>   Cause, i hope when it ask me answer, i just need to press enter to use the default answer.
> 
>   but it comes an error like this : "dpkg: error processing xxx ......"

DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt-get -y -f install XXX


That will atleast get you through the debconf questions.

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