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some commands running non-interactively

Asked by treetaxi

Earlier I posted a question regarding wide-screen resolution which was solved by running "sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg".
I was told that it would ask several questions, but the command executed non-interactively. It was nice, but I would have liked to have been asked ;} . Earlier I ran dexconf, and it also executed non-interactively, & broke the X-server. I ASSUME that adding "-i" to every command in the future will trigger either interactive mode or a usage error message. (of course, when you ass-ume, you can turn your computer into a POS). Any insights ?

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Best Dmitry Mityugov (dmitry-mityugov) said : 		#1

For dpkg-reconfigure, -p parameter specifies the "level" of questions asked. -phigh means "Questions that don’t have a reasonable default", -plow means "Very trivial questions that have defaults that will work in the vast majority of cases", so to get more questions, pass -plow instead of -phigh as a parameter to dpkg-reconfigure.

More information on available priorities is available via man 7 debconf command. To run it, install debconf-doc package first: sudo apt-get install debconf-doc

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treetaxi (treetaxi) said : 		#2

Thanks Dmitry Mityugov, that solved my question.