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My system configuration script does an "apt-get install -y postfix". Unfortunately the script is halted when the postfix installer displays a configuration screen. Is there a method to force postfix to use the defaults during installation so that an automated script can continue to the end?

Does the postfix installer maybe check for existing configuration in /etc/postfix, and if it exists, not bother the user with the configuration screen?

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You can use pre-seeding for this, using the debconf-set-selections command to pre-answer the questions asked by debconf before installing the package.

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If you want this globally:

dpkg-reconfigure debconf

Then configure it to be "noninteractive"

If you just want it for single install run:

DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt-get install PACKAGE
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