debconf - run a debconf-using program

 debconf [options] command [args]

Debconf is a configuration system for Debian packages. For a debconf overview and documentation for sysadmins, see debconf(7).

The debconf program runs a program under debconf's control, setting it up to talk with debconf on stdio. The program's output is expected to be debconf protocol commands, and it is expected to read result codes on stdin. See debconf-devel(7) for details about the debconf protocol.

-opackage, --owner=package

Tell debconf what package the command it is running is a part of. This is necessary to get ownership of registered questions right, and to support unregister and purge commands properly.

-ftype, --frontend=type

Select the frontend to use.

-pvalue, --priority=value

Specify the minimum priority of question that will be displayed.

-s, --showold

Redisplay old, already seen questions.

To debug a shell script that uses debconf, you might use:

 DEBCONF_DEBUG=developer debconf my-shell-prog

Or, you might use this:

 debconf --frontend=readline sh -x my-shell-prog

debconf-devel(7), debconf(7)

Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>

This manpage was borrowed from debconf.