The hack is to force the network configuration to run again after the. The arguments to the command you supply should generally include y for apt get or aptitude or similar to avoid the apt frontend prompting for input. In the rpm world, packages arent allowed to ask questions during installation, and there is no equivalent to debconf, and no equivalent to debconf get selections if you want to restore a systems configuration, you need to save all the system configuration files, typically by backing up etc and this. Install mysql server on ubuntu noninteractive installation. While motivated to have my ubuntu kickstart working i found the resolution. But avoid asking for help, clarification, or responding to other answers.
The start, stop, from, and to options may be used to create a progress bar with multiple segments for different stages of installation, provided that the caller is a debconf confmodule. Debianpaketmanagement debian package management book. Im not that much of an expert to understand how it works but it. You need to skip that and use just bare debconfgetselection to get the list for debconfsetselection. Installationlocalnet community help wiki ubuntu documentation. This is due to debconf get selections masking passwords. Warning only use this command to seed debconf values for packages that will be or are installed. Could someone explain me please the proper way to do this. Preloading debconf values for easy installation its. But the debian project likes the name so much that it uses it give or take a capital c for the system used to configure debian packages. Get the mac address of the new machine you will be installing ubuntu onto the client machine.
How to read and insert new values into the debconf database. Contents of the preconfiguration file for squeeze debian. How to preconfigure package using debconfsetselections. You have searched for packages that names contain debconf in all suites, all sections, and all architectures. I removed something with apt get and i did have this problem. Maintenance of the debian package has now resumed and a fresh new version landed. Found 35 matching packages exact hits package debconf. Id like this to be answered from the command line so that it doesnt interrupt the automatic. There is also a debconf get selections, which is part of the debconf utils package, that displays the stored answers in the debconf database. Im trying to build an ansible playbook to deploy some ubuntu 12. To get debconf get selections on your masterinstall you will need the debconf utils package at least on ubuntu hardy and up and debian etch.
This section describes how to install neo4j on debian, and debianbased distributions like ubuntu, using the neo4j debian package. A number of questions have to be answered depending on the package. Reads from a file if a filename is given, otherwise from stdin. Ive get the properties with debconf get selections and set them previously with the debconf set selections and no more prompts appeared victorgp dec 9 10 at 18. Also, debconfsetselections is more useful for performing an install than debconfgetselections. It is developed for the debian gnulinux distribution, and is closely integrated with debians package management system, dpkg when packages are being installed, debconf asks the user questions which determine the contents of the systemwide configuration files associated with that. Each question will be marked as seen to prevent debconf from asking the question interactively. On debian, ubuntu, and other similar linux distributions, it is highly. You will need debconfgetselections on a source system on which you want to read values from the. The preseed example file provided by debian should be enought to start but you can find a lot of other preseed files provided by different people for different purposes on the same wiki page. Some distros will always record tasks involving the setting of passwords as changed.
Just as the conference is central to the social aspects of debian. This will show the use of debconfsetselections and debconfgetselections to configure mysql setting that might normally be prompted for during installation. You can find all possible actions in the debian packaging manual. How to use debcondf show results with debconfsetselections. If debconf get selections is not available, try installing package debconf utils. Instead of purging all question of a particular package you can try. Ubuntu core developers mail archive please consider filing a bug or asking a question via launchpad before contacting the maintainer directly. Use debconf show on any debian or derivative with the package installed to see questionssettings available. There is a rarelyused command named debconf, documented in debconf 1 debconf provides a consistent interface for configuring packages, allowing you to choose from several user interface frontends. An alternative method is to do a manual installation and then, after rebooting, use the debconfgetselections from the debconfutils package to dump both the. That install option for debconfgetselection does not work. Id like to know in common how to use the results of debconf show with debconf set selections to precvonfigure deb packages with the command line or within a shell script.
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