Re: QQ about apt.

2005-10-28 Thread Sebastian Tennant
I'm no expert Scott, but I reckon there's probably away to instruct dpkg to bypass the pre-inst(allation) scripts. snip This could be dangerous, as some packages generate additional files and whatnot during post-inst. The information gathered during pre-inst is usually relevant there. I

Re: QQ about apt.

2005-10-28 Thread Brian Nelson
Scott Muir [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: (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

QQ about apt.

2005-10-27 Thread Scott Muir
(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

Re: QQ about apt.

2005-10-27 Thread Sebastian Tennant
Scott Muir 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

Re: QQ about apt.

2005-10-27 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 11:24:37PM +0100, Sebastian Tennant wrote: I'm no expert Scott, but I reckon there's probably away to instruct dpkg to bypass the pre-inst(allation) scripts. It's during the execution of these scripts that most of these questions are asked for the purposes of

RE: QQ about apt.

2005-10-27 Thread Scott Muir
(sigh) Thank you both... This still stinks of there's gotta be a way.. anyone? S. -Original Message- From: Roberto C. Sanchez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 27, 2005 3:59 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: QQ about apt. On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 11:24

Re: QQ about apt.

2005-10-27 Thread Joe Smith
Scott Muir [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (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

Re: QQ about apt.

2005-10-27 Thread Bryan Donlan
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