DPKG-PRECONFIGURE(8cdebconf)

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version 0.280ubuntu1 · 4 versions
, in debian trixie, ubuntu questing, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

🎀 NAME 🎀

dpkg-preconfigure — it lets packages ask you questions prior to their installation. questions first, install later, no surprises. 💖

oh and btw this is the 8cdebconf manual page from the Debconf crew, bestie. that's the whole pedigree. 🫶

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

dpkg-preconfigure [options] package.deb
dpkg-preconfigure --apt

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so here's the entire vibe: dpkg-preconfigure lets packages ask questions before they are installed. like, they get to pre-game. 🥂

It operates on a set of debian packages, and all packages that use cdebconf will have their config script run so they can examine the system and ask questions. literally the config script gets to look around your machine, clock the situation, and then hit you with the questions it needs answered. main character energy, honestly. 👑

🌸 OPTIONS 🌸

  • -ftype, --frontend=type — Select the frontend to use. you're choosing which face debconf shows up wearing when it talks to you. 💅
  • -pvalue, --priority=value — 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. so anything under your chosen priority doesn't get to bother you — it just takes the default answer and moves on. boundaries, we love to see it. 🫶
  • --apt — 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:
// Pre-configure all packages before
// they are installed.
DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs {
       "dpkg-preconfigure --apt --priority=low";
};
  • -h, --help — Display usage help. when in doubt, ask for help, that's not embarrassing that's self-care. 🙈

💜 SEE ALSO 💜

cdebconf(7) — go read that one too bestie, it's the whole ecosystem and it's lowkey essential. 🌈

⭐ AUTHOR ⭐

Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> — absolute legend, we stan. 👑

🎀 HISTORY 🎀

This manpage was "borrowed" from debconf. yes, "borrowed". in scare quotes. we said what we said. 💀

and that's a wrap on this one, fr fr — page generated under perl v5.40.1, served up fresh from Debconf. stay preconfigured, bestie, ily. 💖✨🦋

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