Manual: dpkg-preconfigure

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NAME
       dpkg-preconfigure - let packages ask questions prior to their installation

SYNOPSIS
	dpkg-preconfigure [options] package.deb

	dpkg-preconfigure --apt

DESCRIPTION
       dpkg-preconfigure lets packages ask questions before they are installed.	 It operates on a set of
       debian packages, and all packages that use debconf will have their config script run so they can
       examine the system and ask questions.

OPTIONS
       -ftype, --frontend=type
	   Select the frontend to use.

       -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.

       --terse
	   Enables terse output mode. This affects only some frontends.

       --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.

SEE ALSO
       debconf(7)

AUTHOR
       Joey Hess 

						 2026-02-16				DPKG-PRECONFIGURE(8)