Re: Scripting Apt-Get (pop-up screens, e.g. with kernel updates)

["Michael Matthews" <erobererunc@gmail.com>]

Slightly more information.  From reading man dpkg, does anyone thing that the following would be useful?  I don't really know what it means by "shell escape," but does that mean when it pops up the reboot screen for kernels?

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
       DPKG_NO_TSTP
              Define this to something if you prefer dpkg starting a new shell rather than  suspend‐
              ing itself, while doing a shell escape.

On 6/22/07, Michael Matthews <erobererunc@gmail.com> wrote:

All,

I am wondering if anyone can tell me if there's an easy way, when using `apt-get upgrade`, to get around the pop-up configuration screens that occur with some updates.  One example of this is with a kernel update.  It appears that the kernel update wants to inform you that you should reboot soon, and unfortunately the colorful blue and red screen cannot be circumvented with the usual ways.  I tried this:

> apt-get -y update
> apt-get -y upgrade -or- apt-get -y --force-yes upgrade

Neither of these work.  It seems like I might be able to get around this screen by manipulating either some apt-get configuration, or some dpkg configurations, but I'm completely unaware of where this information may be held.

Thanks for any help!