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📛 NAME

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

🚀 Quick Reference

Use Case	Command	Description
Pre‑configure a single package	dpkg-preconfigure [options] package.deb	💬 Let packages ask questions before installation
Pre‑configure all packages via apt	dpkg-preconfigure --apt	📦 Read package filenames from stdin, used by apt
Select frontend type	dpkg-preconfigure --frontend=type	🎛️ Choose the frontend to use
Set question priority threshold	dpkg-preconfigure --priority=value	🔽 Ignore questions below this priority
Enable terse output	dpkg-preconfigure --terse	🔇 Reduce output verbosity (affects some frontends)

📋 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 <joeyh@debian.org>

2022-02-20

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