On Mon 04 Apr 2016 at 10:12:25 +0200, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > hi, > I would like run "aptitude safe-upgrade" without staying in front of my > screen for hours > A convenient way would be to postpone to the end of the upgrade all > package installs needing an answer, like > > ==> File on system created by you or by a script. > ==> File also in package provided by package maintainer. > What would you like to do about it ? > > but I don't see any way to do that(it would be nice to have > such an option in aptitude...) > > An other solution is to use the -y flag, but in that case it's > the package maintainer's file which is installed. > Is there a way to run aptitude with "N" as automatic answer? > May-be redirecting input from a file with several "N" lines ?
In the dpkg manual you'll find 'confnew' and 'confdef', apt-get accepts dpkg paramters. aptitude probably does too.