Previously VALETTE Eric wrote: > The reason behind that is that I normally install testing with a > collection of selected packages from unstable (e.g gs-alladin, X11 4.1.x > untiul recently...). So not apt-get or dselect would do the job.
apt will do the job, read the apt-preferences manpage. > I did dpkg-reconfigure debconf and selected the non-interactive mode. > But installing pacakages, I was prompted for questions anyway and the > usual <<EOF shell trick did not work. Sounds like a debconf bug. > It should be possible to do > > dpkg -i pkg.deb <<EOF > value1 > value2 > ... > valuen > EOF No it should not, that is completely the wrong way to do it. That is just a hack to work around debconf not working properly for you or packages not using it yet. Wichert. -- _________________________________________________________________ / Nothing is fool-proof to a sufficiently talented fool \ | [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.liacs.nl/~wichert/ | | 1024D/2FA3BC2D 576E 100B 518D 2F16 36B0 2805 3CB8 9250 2FA3 BC2D |
