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DEBCONF-SHOW(1)

📛 NAME

debconf-show - query the debconf database

🚀 Quick Reference

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

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2022-02-20                                                                                                                                                           DEBCONF-SHOW(1)

📛 NAME 🚀 Quick Reference 🖥️ SYNOPSIS 📖 DESCRIPTION ⚙️ OPTIONS 👤 AUTHOR