debconf - Configure a .deb package

• Synopsis
• Requirements (on host that executes module)
• Options
• Examples
• Notes
• This is an Extras Module

Synopsis

Configure a .deb package using debconf-set-selections. Or just query existing selections.

Requirements (on host that executes module)

• debconf
• debconf-utils

Options

parameter	required	default	choices	comments
name	yes			Name of package to configure. aliases: pkg
question	no			A debconf configuration setting aliases: setting, selection
unseen	no			Do not set 'seen' flag when pre-seeding
value	no			Value to set the configuration to aliases: answer
vtype	no		string password boolean select multiselect note error title text seen	The type of the value supplied. seen was added in 2.2.

Examples

# Set default locale to fr_FR.UTF-8
debconf: name=locales question='locales/default_environment_locale' value=fr_FR.UTF-8 vtype='select'

# set to generate locales:
debconf: name=locales question='locales/locales_to_be_generated'  value='en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8, fr_FR.UTF-8 UTF-8' vtype='multiselect'

# Accept oracle license
debconf: name='oracle-java7-installer' question='shared/accepted-oracle-license-v1-1' value='true' vtype='select'

# Specifying package you can register/return the list of questions and current values
debconf: name='tzdata'

Notes

This is an Extras Module

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