On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 17:39:00, Deepak, R. wrote:
> I want to run aptitude in the background and install xserver-xfree86. So I
> do:
> aptitude --assume-yes install xserver-xfree86
> Then I <Ctrl-Z> and use "bg".
>
> There are two problems:
> 1. It continues printing the percentage completed.
Try
aptitude --assume-yes install xserver-xfree86 >/dev/null 2>&1 &
That should send all output on stdin and stderr to /dev/null, and send it to the
background.
> 2. How do I get it to ask the configuration questions at a later time?
dpkg-reconfigure <package-name>
You'll have to do that for each dependency individually, unfortunately.
-Ben
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