What is Debian frontend?
It runs your editor on a file that looks something like a typical unix config file, and you edit those files to communicate with debconf. web – This frontend acts as a web server, that you connect to with your web browser, to browse the questions and answer them.
What is the debconf database?
Debconf is a configuration system for Debian packages. /etc/debconf. conf and ~/. debconfrc are configuration files debconf uses to determine which databases it should use. These databases are used for storing two types of information; dynamic config data the user enters into it, and static template data.
What is debconf Ubuntu?
Debconf is a configuration system for Debian packages. There is a rarely-used command named debconf, documented in debconf(1) Debconf provides a consistent interface for configuring packages, allowing you to choose from several user interface frontends.
Where can I find the Debian_frontend options?
The DEBIAN_FRONTEND options are documented in the Section 7 manual pages of debconf (you may need to install the debconf-doc package in order to make these available on your system). From man 7 debconf: Frontends One of debconf’s unique features is that the interface it presents to you is only one of many, that can be swapped in at will.
What are the different debconf frontends?
Frontends One of debconf’s unique features is that the interface it presents to you is only one of many, that can be swapped in at will. There are many debconf frontends available: dialog The default frontend, this uses the whiptail (1) or dialog (1) programs to display questions to you.
What is DebConf in Linux?
Debian, Ubuntu, and clones use the Debian package configuration system called debconf. One can use debconf before packages installed onto your Linux desktop or cloud server. For example, one can configure the apt command or apt-get command using various options for sysadmin tasks.
What happens if I set Debian_frontend to noninteractive?
However, setting this environment variable to noninteractive has an adverse effect. Because it is inherited by all images and containers built from the image, effectively changing their behavior. Setting DEBIAN_FRONTEND to noninteractive is mainly a ‘cosmetic’ change, we highly discourage changing it.
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