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Re: unattended installation of a debian package



Hello Colin,

On Thu, Jul 18, 2002 at 02:22:22PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> > Is it possible to install a debian package in an unattended way (without
> > any user interaction), although the package installation script would
> > normaly ask some questions?
> 
> More or less, although it is not yet reliably possible. Set
> DEBIAN_FRONTEND=Noninteractive in the environment and use the
> --force-confdef flag to dpkg to suppress any conffile prompts. (However,
> the latter may break the package if you had edited the conffile and it
> required major changes.)

Thank you very much! Exactly what I've been looking for ;-)
Seems I've asked google the wrong questions...

-- 
Greetings,
Tobias

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