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Unattended interactive installers with Puppet/Moonshine
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Three options:

  1. If an apt-get package is available, use it, then tweak configuration files after installation.
  2. If no package is available, see if the installer has a "noninteractive" mode. For instance, apt-get can be forced to auto-answer all questions with the defaults using ENV['DEBIAN_FRONTEND'] = "noninteractive".
  3. If a noninteractive mode is not available, try feeding the installer an answer file. e.g.
pecl install apc < answers.txt

Creating an answer file can be done manually, or you can try to use autoexpect to generate an installer script.

credit: thanks to Jesse Newland for ideas and info. Originally discussed on the Moonshine mailing list

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