APT-EXTRACTTEMPLATE(1)

💖 apt-extracttemplates(1) — APT's debconf-template extractor 💖

🌸 NAME 🌸

apt-extracttemplates — a utility to extract debconf config and templates from Debian packages. She's not like other extractors 💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

apt-extracttemplates [-t=temporary_directory] filename...
                     {-v | --version} {-h | --help}

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so picture this, bestie: apt-extracttemplates takes one or more Debian package files as input and writes out — to a temporary directory — all associated config scripts and template files. For each passed-in package that contains config scripts and templates, one line of output gets generated in this format:

package version template-file config-script

template-file and config-script are written to the temporary directory specified by -t or --tempdir (the APT::ExtractTemplates::TempDir configuration item) directory, with filenames of the form package.template.XXXXXX and package.config.XXXXXX. Like little name-tagged artifacts, so cute.

💅 OPTIONS 💅

All command line options may be set using the configuration file, and the descriptions below tell you which configuration option to set. For boolean options, you can override the config file by using something like -f-, --no-f, -f=no, or several other variations. Rules? We bend them, but only in supported ways.

• -t, --tempdir — Temporary directory in which to write extracted debconf template files and config scripts. Configuration Item: APT::ExtractTemplates::TempDir
• -h, --help — Show a short usage summary. Your little map 🗺️
• -v, --version — Show the program version. Receipts! 💖
• --audit — Show audit (and notice) messages. This overrides the quiet option, but only for notice messages, not progress ones. So it's not a full quiet-mode cancel, bestie — notice messages only.
• -c, --config-file — Configuration File; Specify a configuration file to use. The program will read the default configuration file and then this configuration file. If configuration settings need to be set before the default configuration files are parsed, specify a file with the APT_CONFIG environment variable. See apt.conf(5) for syntax information.
• -o, --option — Set a Configuration Option; This will set an arbitrary configuration option. The syntax is -o Foo::Bar=bar. -o and --option can be used multiple times to set different options. Stack 'em like friendship bracelets ✨
• --cli-version — Requests a specific CLI version. This is a pattern that takes a MAJOR.MINOR version. You may omit the MINOR version, in which case the latest supported minor level will be used.

Version tracks are presented as follows: The version 3.2 has equivalent versions 0.32, 1.22, and 2.12, implementing new features for their specified major versions.

A special case is the X.9 version pattern: A version like 2.9 is followed by 3.0, but 2.10 follows directly on 2.8; given that we use odd version numbers as development series (2.9 is the 3.0 development series).

This feature has been introduced in APT 3.1.10, and replaces the binary-specific configuration. You may use the APT::Version to similar effect on older binaries, for example, use -o APT::Version=2 to make apt(8) behave like the 2.x series.

The default value is the current APT version for apt(8) and 0.(10 * major + minor) for the classic commands. The 0.X series is soft-deprecated and the other commands will roll over to the 2.x series in the future. Soft-deprecated is still deprecated, just with a cozy blanket.

• --no-color, --color — Turn colors on or off. Colors are on by default on supported terminals for apt(8) and can also be disabled using the NO_COLOR or APT_NO_COLOR environment variables, or further configured by the APT::Color configuration option and scope, see apt.conf(5) for information on that. Fabulous by default, but you can turn it off. Respect. 💅

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

• apt.conf(5)

🔥 DIAGNOSTICS 🔥

apt-extracttemplates returns zero on normal operation, decimal 100 on error. Zero = slay. 100 = call for help. 😭

💀 BUGS 💀

APT bug page[1]. If you wish to report a bug in APT, please see /usr/share/doc/debian/bug-reporting.txt or the reportbug(1) command. Be gentle, she's doing her best.

🌈 AUTHORS 🌈

• Jason Gunthorpe
• APT team

🎀 NOTES 🎀

1. APT bug page — https://bugs.debian.org/src:apt

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Later, bestie 💖 — this page is from APT 3.3.4, dated 27 March 2014, and it's the APT-EXTRACTTEMPLATE(1) manual. 🫶