You can use pre-seeding for this, using the debconf-set-selections command to pre-answer the questions asked by debconf before installing the package. For example: debconf-set-selections <<< “postfix postfix/mailname string your.hostname.com” debconf-set-selections <<< “postfix postfix/main_mailer_type string ‘Internet Site'” apt-get install –assume-yes postfix
apt-utils contains the /usr/bin/apt-extracttemplates program which is used when packages need to ask you questions about how to be configured. This package being Priority: important, means it should really be installed except in rare circumstances. If there is configuration pending, dpkg-reconfigure [package] will perform it. If you missed configuring a number of packages and don’t … Read more
I got the error message to go away by putting the following in my provisioning script, prior to any apt-get calls: export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive This makes debconf use a frontend that expects no interactive input at all, preventing it from even trying to access stdin.
Simple: grep -h -P -o “^Package: \K.*” /var/lib/apt/lists/ppa.launchpad.net_*_Packages | sort -u Or more flexible: grep-dctrl -sPackage . /var/lib/apt/lists/ppa.launchpad.net_*_Packages For fancier querying, use apt-cache policy and aptitude as described here: aptitude search ‘~O LP-PPA-gstreamer-developers’
The apt history is in /var/log/apt/history.log as said in a comment above. That said, this will not list packages that were installed manually, using dpkg or GUIs such as gdebi. To see all the packages that went through dpkg, you can look at /var/log/dpkg.log.
Note: in the following commands, a command beginning with ‘root#’ means it needs to be run as root. To find which files were installed by a package, use dpkg -L: $ dpkg -L $package apt-file can tell you which files will be installed by a package before installing it: root# apt-get install apt-file root# apt-file … Read more
Simple and easy solution: just specify the unwanted packages with an extra – after each of them. Example without the – switch: root@debian:~# apt-get install bsd-mailx Reading package lists… Done Building dependency tree Reading state information… Done The following extra packages will be installed: exim4-base exim4-config exim4-daemon-light liblockfile-bin liblockfile1 […] Example using the switch to … Read more
Aptitude can help you when you initially install the package: aptitude install “zlib1g-dev&M” Or, after your have installed the package: aptitude markauto “zlib1g” Edit: If you do not have aptitude, you can use apt-mark auto zlib1g-dev
You can do a couple of things for avoiding this. Setting the DEBIAN_FRONTEND variable to noninteractive and using -y flag. For example: export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt-get -yq install [packagename] If you need to install it via sudo, use: sudo DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt-get -yq install [packagename]
I am unable to locate package python-pip: How can I resolve this problem?