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📋 NAME

debconf-show – query the debconf database

🚀 Quick Reference

Use Case	Command	Description
Query a package's debconf values	debconf-show <packagename>	🔍 Display all items and their current values for a given package
List all owners in database	debconf-show --listowners	📋 List all package names that own questions in the database
List available databases	debconf-show --listdbs	🗄️ Show all available databases

📝 SYNOPSIS

debconf-show packagename [...] [--db=dbname]
debconf-show --listowners [--db=dbname]
debconf-show --listdbs

📖 DESCRIPTION

debconf-show lets you query the debconf database in different ways.

The most common use is debconf-show packagename, which displays all items in the debconf database owned by a given package, and their current values. Questions that have been asked already are prefixed with an '*'.

This can be useful as a debugging aid, and especially handy in bug reports involving a package's use of debconf.

⚙️ OPTIONS

• --db=dbname — Specify the database to query. By default, debconf-show queries the main database.
• --listowners — Lists all owners of questions in the database. Generally an owner is equivalent to a debian package name.
• --listdbs — Lists all available databases.

👤 AUTHOR

Joey Hess <joeyh AT debian.org> and Sylvain Ferriol

2022-02-20

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