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

[RDP < >]

Thanks Jochen, infact I just studies mysql and was on it.. before I got your message.

Anyway, truly appreciate your answer on this.

On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 7:53 PM, Jochen Lillich < "> > wrote:

On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 4:04 PM, aserdp < "> > 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