<!-- -*- mode: sgml; mode: fold -*- --> <!doctype refentry PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook V3.1//EN" [ <!ENTITY % aptent SYSTEM "apt.ent"> %aptent; ]> <refentry> &apt-docinfo; <refmeta> <refentrytitle>apt-extracttemplates</> <manvolnum>1</> </refmeta> <!-- Man page title --> <refnamediv> <refname>apt-extracttemplates</> <refpurpose>Utility to extract DebConf config and templates from Debian packages</> </refnamediv> <!-- Arguments --> <refsynopsisdiv> <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> </refsynopsisdiv> <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</> </RefSect1> <RefSect1><Title>Options</> &apt-cmdblurb; <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> &apt-commonoptions; </VariableList> </RefSect1> <RefSect1><Title>See Also</> <para> &apt-conf; </RefSect1> <RefSect1><Title>Diagnostics</> <para> <command/apt-extracttemplates/ returns zero on normal operation, decimal 100 on error. </RefSect1> &manbugs; &manauthor; </refentry>