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Making apt installs safe in non-interactive scripts
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| #!/bin/bash | |
| packages="zsh htop" | |
| logfile="~/apt.log" | |
| touch "$logfile" | |
| for package in packages; do | |
| DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt-get install -qy -o Dpkg::Options::="--force-confdef" -o Dpkg::Options::="--force-confold" "$package" >>"${logfile}" 2>&1 | |
| done |
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make sure to check the logfile in case new config versions were installed on the side, and alert user about this