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<H1>DPKG-PRECONFIGURE</H1>
Section: Debconf (8)<BR>Updated: 2019-08-03<BR><A HREF="#index">Index</A>
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<H2>NAME</H2>
dpkg-preconfigure - let packages ask questions prior to their installation
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<H2>SYNOPSIS</H2>
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dpkg-preconfigure [options] package.deb
dpkg-preconfigure --apt
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<H2>DESCRIPTION</H2>
<B>dpkg-preconfigure</B> lets packages ask questions before they are installed.
It operates on a set of debian packages, and all packages that use debconf
will have their config script run so they can examine the system and ask
questions.
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<H2>OPTIONS</H2>
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<DT id="1"><B>-f</B><I>type</I>, <B>--frontend=</B><I>type</I><DD>
Select the frontend to use.
<DT id="2"><B>-p</B><I>value</I>, <B>--priority=</B><I>value</I><DD>
Set the lowest priority of questions you are interested in. Any questions
with a priority below the selected priority will be ignored and their
default answers will be used.
<DT id="3"><B>--terse</B><DD>
Enables terse output mode. This affects only some frontends.
<DT id="4"><B>--apt</B><DD>
Run in apt mode. It will expect to read a set of package filenames from
stdin, rather than getting them as parameters. Typically this is used to
make apt run dpkg-preconfigure on all packages before they are installed.
To do this, add something like this to /etc/apt/apt.conf:
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// Pre-configure all packages before
// they are installed.
DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs {
&quot;dpkg-preconfigure --apt --priority=low&quot;;
};
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<DT id="5"><B>-h</B>, <B>--help</B><DD>
Display usage help.
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<H2>SEE ALSO</H2>
<B><A HREF="/cgi-bin/man/man2html?7+debconf">debconf</A></B>(7)
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<H2>AUTHOR</H2>
Joey Hess &lt;<A HREF="mailto:joeyh@debian.org">joeyh@debian.org</A>&gt;
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<DT id="6"><A HREF="#lbAB">NAME</A><DD>
<DT id="7"><A HREF="#lbAC">SYNOPSIS</A><DD>
<DT id="8"><A HREF="#lbAD">DESCRIPTION</A><DD>
<DT id="9"><A HREF="#lbAE">OPTIONS</A><DD>
<DT id="10"><A HREF="#lbAF">SEE ALSO</A><DD>
<DT id="11"><A HREF="#lbAG">AUTHOR</A><DD>
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