I am writing a script for a unattended install of a package that is in our repo, it is a software package with one of Debian's marked config files.
Is there any option that I can pass to apt-get
/aptitude
so that it accepts the new config files?
Basically I need an apt
/aptitude
equivalent of dpkg --force-confnew
I need to answer the following question posed while apt-get
is installing with a Y
Configuration file “/opt/application/conf/XXX.conf`'
==> File on system created by you or by a script.
==> File also in package provided by package maintainer.
What would you like to do about it ? Your options are:
Y or I : install the package maintainer's version
N or O : keep your currently-installed version
D : show the differences between the versions
Z : background this process to examine the
The default action is to keep your current version.
Additional Info:
Also, I am passing the sudo
password in a pipe to execute the command
echo "mysudopass"|sudo -S apt-get mypackage
This is flagging an error in installation when the installation is at the config interactive phase.
I am on Ubuntu 10.04
apt version: apt 0.7.25.3
Why I cannot use dpkg
: These Debians are to be installed from Repo and I don't have local Debians on my machine
Best Answer
You can pass
dpkg
parameters toapt-get
like thisWith
--force-confdef
if old config files still exist, they won't get overridden. So you probably won't use it, I'm just documenting it for others.sudo
will not ask for a password if you negate the authenticate option for the user or add theNOPASSWD
tag in the specific entry. e.g.