On 10/27/05, Scott Muir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > (noob) > > I would like to know if and how it is possible to do a non-interactive > install of an .deb package. The pages I have read talk only of a 'yes to > all questions' option which is obviously useless if the package you are > installing has questions other than yes/no and so on. > > The docs also speak of being able to set *arbitrary* options in the command > line. This seemed to be more related to the apt-get program rather than the > packages. > > Two examples I want to do are Apache2 and PostgreSQL which require some > additional prompting. The purpose here is to create a set of steps which > can quickly install a Debian system from scratch, limit down-time and remove > some of the human element. > > Is there a way of doing this? I'm at about a 3 bananas out of 5 on the > howler monkey scale.
Try: DEBCONF_FRONTEND=noninteractive <your command here> This'll assume defaults on all debconf questions. I'm not sure how it'll interact with conffile replacement prompts however.