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<!ENTITY % aptent SYSTEM "apt.ent">
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&apt-author.jgunthorpe;
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<date>29 February 2004</date>
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<refentrytitle>apt-extracttemplates</refentrytitle>
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<manvolnum>1</manvolnum>
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<!-- Man page title -->
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<refname>apt-extracttemplates</refname>
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<refpurpose>Utility to extract DebConf config and templates from Debian packages</refpurpose>
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<command>apt-extracttemplates</command>
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<arg><option>-hv</option></arg>
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<arg><option>-t=<replaceable>temporary directory</replaceable></option></arg>
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<arg choice="plain" rep="repeat"><replaceable>file</replaceable></arg>
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<refsect1><title>Description</title>
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<para><command>apt-extracttemplates</command> will take one or more Debian package files
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as input and write out (to a temporary directory) all associated config
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scripts and template files. For each passed in package that contains
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config scripts and templates, one line of output will be generated
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<para>package version template-file config-script</para>
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<para>template-file and config-script are written to the temporary directory
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specified by the -t or --tempdir (<literal>APT::ExtractTemplates::TempDir</literal>)
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directory, with filenames of the form <filename>package.template.XXXX</filename> and
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<filename>package.config.XXXX</filename></para>
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<refsect1><title>options</title>
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<varlistentry><term><option>-t</option></term><term><option>--tempdir</option></term>
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Temporary directory in which to write extracted debconf template files
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Configuration Item: <literal>APT::ExtractTemplates::TempDir</literal></para></listitem>
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<refsect1><title>See Also</title>
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<para>&apt-conf;</para>
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<refsect1><title>Diagnostics</title>
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<para><command>apt-extracttemplates</command> returns zero on normal operation, decimal 100 on error.</para>