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 -- Termisoc Secretary: http://www.termisoc.org/ Home Page: http://benalee.co.uk/ Public Key: BEC9DC1A
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