Re: unattended aptitude
On Mon 04 Apr 2016 at 10:12:25 +0200, Pierre Frenkiel wrote:
> hi,
> I would like run "aptitude safe-upgrade" without staying in front of my
> screen for hours
> A convenient way would be to postpone to the end of the upgrade all
> package installs needing an answer, like
>
> ==> File on system created by you or by a script.
> ==> File also in package provided by package maintainer.
> What would you like to do about it ?
>
> but I don't see any way to do that(it would be nice to have
> such an option in aptitude...)
>
> An other solution is to use the -y flag, but in that case it's
> the package maintainer's file which is installed.
> Is there a way to run aptitude with "N" as automatic answer?
> May-be redirecting input from a file with several "N" lines ?
In the dpkg manual you'll find 'confnew' and 'confdef', apt-get accepts
dpkg paramters. aptitude probably does too.
Reply to: