Hello, I am writing a debian binary package for my application (foo). The postinst (post install) script wants to ask the user few questions and get the answers as well. I am trying to achieve this using debconf.
But I am not able to see the UI screen, prompting user with questions. I doubt if my config and templates are even called by dpkg. I am using all the instructions as per the links http://www.fifi.org/doc/debconf-doc/tutorial.html. Could someone please help me find what is going wrong? *Snippet of my build script *build.sh* *: (only relevant fields) PKG_NAME=foo mkdir -p debian/DEBIAN sed "s/VERSION/$PKG_VERSION/" control > debian/DEBIAN/control #PKG_VERSION and other variables are delared in my script cp preinst debian/DEBIAN/preinst cp postinst debian/DEBIAN/postinst cp prerm debian/DEBIAN/prerm cp postrm debian/DEBIAN/postrm cp config debian/DEBIAN/config cp templates debian/DEBIAN/templates chmod 755 debian/DEBIAN/postinst chmod 755 debian/DEBIAN/preinst chmod 755 debian/DEBIAN/prerm chmod 755 debian/DEBIAN/postrm chmod 755 debian/DEBIAN/config chmod 755 debian/DEBIAN/templates #commands to actually build the package… *Snippet of control file: (only relevant fields)* Depends: debconf (>= 0.2.17) *Snippet of config file*: #!/bin/sh set -e DEBCONF_DEBUG=developer DEBIAN_FRONTEND=gnome # Source debconf library. . /usr/share/debconf/confmodule db_input medium foo/like_debian || true db_go # Check their answer. db_get foo/like_debian if [ "$RET" = "false" ]; then # Poor misguided one.. db_input high foo/why_debian_is_great || true db_go fi *Snippet of templates file*: Template: foo/like_debian Type: boolean Description: Do you like Debian? We'd like to know if you like the Debian GNU/Linux system. Template: foo/why_debian_is_great Type: note Description: Poor misguided one. Why are you installing this package? Debian is great. As you continue using Debian, we hope you will discover the error in your ways. *Snippet of postinst*: #!/bin/sh set -e # Source debconf library. . /usr/share/debconf/confmodule db_get foo/like_debian if [ "$RET" = "false" ]; then touch "/home/myhome/ITWORKED" fi exit 0 I do not see any errors also when I have set DEBCONF_DEBUG=developer. Thanks and Regards, -Sandeep
