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

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Subject: Re: Scripting Apt-Get (pop-up screens, e.g. with kernel updates)
From: bob@proulx.com (Bob Proulx)
Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2007 15:55:19 -0600
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Karl E. Jorgensen wrote:
> # DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt-get install whatever

In addition to this to be truly batch mode you may want to set
DEBCONF_ADMIN_EMAIL="" too.

  # DEBCONF_ADMIN_EMAIL="" DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt-get install -q -y whatever

That will prevent email from being generated for those operations that
would generate it.

Bob

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- Scripting Apt-Get (pop-up screens, e.g. with kernel updates)
  - From: "Michael Matthews" <erobererunc@gmail.com>
- Re: Scripting Apt-Get (pop-up screens, e.g. with kernel updates)
  - From: "Karl E. Jorgensen" <karl@jorgensen.org.uk>

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