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NAME
       debconf - run a debconf-using program

SYNOPSIS
        debconf [options] command [args]

DESCRIPTION
       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 con-
       trol, setting it up to talk with debconf on stdio. The
       program's output is expected to be debconf protocol com-
       mands, and it is expected to read result codes on stdin.
       See debconf-devel(7) for details about the debconf proto-
       col.

OPTIONS
       -opackage, --owner=package
           Tell debconf what package the command it is running is
           a part of. This is necessary to get ownership of reg-
           istered 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.

EXAMPLES
       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

SEE ALSO
       debconf-devel(7), debconf(7)

AUTHOR
       Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>



                            2002-06-20                 DEBCONF(1)