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geekhack Community => Off Topic => Topic started by: mztriz on Wed, 13 February 2013, 11:06:35

Title: Bash scripting help!
Post by: mztriz on Wed, 13 February 2013, 11:06:35

Hey everyone,

I have a script that downloads and replaces kernel headers in Debian squeeze.

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function fixHeaders(){
    #Replace the kernel headers from OVH with standard kernel headers...
    aptitude -y install linux-image-2.6.32-5-amd64 
    sed s/'GRUB_DEFAULT=0'/'GRUB_DEFAULT=1'/g
    update-grub
    echo "Rebooting the machine. Run this script again after reboot and choose option 2."
    sleep 1
    reboot 
}

The problem I'm having is that after aptitude downloads the package it throws the script into a text gui and asks the user a bunch of questions. Is there any way to skip this or send tab/enter at the appropriate times to select "OK" for all answers?

If anyone knows, I'd really appreciate the help!  ;D Thanks!

Title: Re: Bash scripting help!
Post by: rknize on Wed, 13 February 2013, 11:09:18

DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive or somesuch.

Title: Re: Bash scripting help!
Post by: mztriz on Wed, 13 February 2013, 11:22:22

Quote from: rknize on Wed, 13 February 2013, 11:09:18

DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive or somesuch.

Thanks for the hint rknize -- based on that I was able to figure out how to do it.

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DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive /usr/bin/apt-get install linux-image-2.6.32-5-amd64 -y -q
--force-yes

Thanks again.  :)