[wplug] apt-get question

[Alexandros Papadopoulos]

On Friday 15 April 2005 18:17, John Harrold wrote:
> I have a question concerning apt-get. I can run apt-get upgrade with
> the -y option and any prompts from apt are assumed yes. However, apt
> executes debconf much of the time to configure different aspects of
> the packages. I'd like something similar to '-y' which will use the
> default options debconf provides. Can anyone help me out with this. I
> didn't see anything in the man page for apt-get.

Try browsing through the options listed there:
$ zcat /usr/share/doc/apt/examples/configure-index.gz | less

I've never used such options (and, as the comment in that file says, I'd 
never use them), but they might fit the bill.

-A