[chef] Re: How to handle dialogs in apt-get

[Jochen Lillich < >]

On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 4:04 PM, aserdp 
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 wrote:

> How to handle the question posed via a dialog
> box  during installation of a package using apt-get.

You need to "preseed" the answers to these dialogs via
"debconf-set-selections" so apt-get doesn't need to open up a dialog
box in the first place. See the mysql cookbook for an example.

Best regards,
  Jochen