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16 &apt-author.jgunthorpe;
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21 <date>29 February
2004</date>
25 <refentrytitle>apt-extracttemplates
</refentrytitle>
26 <manvolnum>1</manvolnum>
27 <refmiscinfo class=
"manual">APT
</refmiscinfo>
30 <!-- Man page title -->
32 <refname>apt-extracttemplates
</refname>
33 <refpurpose>Utility to extract DebConf config and templates from Debian packages
</refpurpose>
39 <command>apt-extracttemplates
</command>
40 <arg><option>-hv
</option></arg>
41 <arg><option>-t=
<replaceable>temporary directory
</replaceable></option></arg>
42 <arg choice=
"plain" rep=
"repeat"><replaceable>file
</replaceable></arg>
46 <refsect1><title>Description
</title>
47 <para><command>apt-extracttemplates
</command> will take one or more Debian package files
48 as input and write out (to a temporary directory) all associated config
49 scripts and template files. For each passed in package that contains
50 config scripts and templates, one line of output will be generated
52 <para>package version template-file config-script
</para>
53 <para>template-file and config-script are written to the temporary directory
54 specified by the -t or --tempdir (
<literal>APT::ExtractTemplates::TempDir
</literal>)
55 directory, with filenames of the form
<filename>package.template.XXXX
</filename> and
56 <filename>package.config.XXXX
</filename></para>
59 <refsect1><title>options
</title>
63 <varlistentry><term><option>-t
</option></term><term><option>--tempdir
</option></term>
65 Temporary directory in which to write extracted debconf template files
67 Configuration Item:
<literal>APT::ExtractTemplates::TempDir
</literal></para></listitem>
77 <refsect1><title>See Also
</title>
78 <para>&apt-conf;
</para>
81 <refsect1><title>Diagnostics
</title>
82 <para><command>apt-extracttemplates
</command> returns zero on normal operation, decimal
100 on error.
</para>