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   <refentrytitle>apt-extracttemplates</>
   <manvolnum>1</>
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 <refnamediv>
    <refname>apt-extracttemplates</>
    <refpurpose>Utility to extract DebConf config and templates from Debian packages</>
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   <cmdsynopsis>
      <command>apt-extracttemplates</>
      <arg><option>-hv</></arg>
      <arg><option>-t=<replaceable/temporary directory/</></arg>
      <arg choice="plain" rep="repeat"><replaceable>file</replaceable></arg>
   </cmdsynopsis>
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 <RefSect1><Title>Description</>
   <para>   
   <command/apt-extracttemplates/ will take one or more Debian package files
   as input and write out (to a temporary directory) all associated config
   scripts and template files. For each passed in package that contains 
   config scripts and templates, one line of output will be generated
   in the format:
   <para>
   package version template-file config-script
   <para>
   template-file and config-script are written to the temporary directory
   specified by the -t or --tempdir (<literal>APT::ExtractTemplates::TempDir</>) 
   directory, with filenames of the form <filename>package.template.XXXX</> and 
   <filename>package.config.XXXX</>
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 <RefSect1><Title>Options</>
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   <VariableList>
     <VarListEntry><term><option/-t/</><term><option/--tempdir/</>
     <ListItem><Para>
     Temporary directory in which to write extracted debconf template files
     and config scripts
     Configuration Item: <literal/APT::ExtractTemplates::TempDir/.
     </VarListEntry>

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   </VariableList>
     
   
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 <RefSect1><Title>See Also</>
   <para>
   &apt-conf;
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 <RefSect1><Title>Diagnostics</>
   <para>
   <command/apt-extracttemplates/ returns zero on normal operation, decimal 100 on error.
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