Category: Installation

autonomous installation

debian

creating a package list

In order to use a package list of a good installed node type

  _dpkg --get-selection > list_name_ 

edit this list. If you want to remove packages, replace install by deinstall in corresponding line. If you want to have add packages write

package_name install

read in the list

Copy your list on the node you want to install and type

  _dpkg --set-selection < list_name_ 

set environment variables

In order to achieve a autonomous installation set the following environment variables

(''export DEBIAN_PRIORITY="critical")

Only questions with the priority critical are asked.

  _DEBCONF_FRONTEND="noninteractive"_ 
 
  _DEBCONF_NONINTERACTIVE_SEEN="true"_ 

Read man 7 debconf for further information.

install the packages

  _apt-get dselect-upgrade_