debconf – Configure a .deb package

• Synopsis
• Requirements
• Parameters
• Notes
• Examples
• Status

Synopsis

• Configure a .deb package using debconf-set-selections.
• Or just query existing selections.

Requirements

The below requirements are needed on the host that executes this module.

• debconf
• debconf-utils

Parameters

Parameter	Choices/Defaults	Comments
name string / required		Name of package to configure. aliases: pkg
question string		A debconf configuration setting. aliases: selection, setting
unseen boolean	Choices: no ← yes	Do not set 'seen' flag when pre-seeding.
value string		Value to set the configuration to. aliases: answer
vtype string	Choices: boolean error multiselect note password seen select string text title	The type of the value supplied. seen was added in Ansible 2.2.

Notes

Examples

- name: Set default locale to fr_FR.UTF-8
  debconf:
    name: locales
    question: locales/default_environment_locale
    value: fr_FR.UTF-8
    vtype: select

- name: set to generate locales
  debconf:
    name: locales
    question: locales/locales_to_be_generated
    value: en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8, fr_FR.UTF-8 UTF-8
    vtype: multiselect

- name: Accept oracle license
  debconf:
    name: oracle-java7-installer
    question: shared/accepted-oracle-license-v1-1
    value: 'true'
    vtype: select

- name: Specifying package you can register/return the list of questions and current values
  debconf:
    name: tzdata

Status

• This module is guaranteed to have backward compatible interface changes going forward. [stableinterface]
• This module is maintained by the Ansible Core Team. [core]

Red Hat Support

More information about Red Hat’s support of this module is available from this Red Hat Knowledge Base article.

Authors

• Brian Coca (@bcoca)