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6 dpkg-preconfigure - let packages ask questions prior to their
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10 dpkg-preconfigure [options] package.deb
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12 dpkg-preconfigure --apt
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15 dpkg-preconfigure lets packages ask questions before they are
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17 that use debconf will have their config script run so they can examine
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21 -ftype, --frontend=type
22 Select the frontend to use.
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25 Set the lowest priority of questions you are interested in. Any
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30 Enables terse output mode. This affects only some frontends.
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33 Run in apt mode. It will expect to read a set of package filenames
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45 -h, --help
46 Display usage help.
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52 Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>
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