%aptent; ]> &apt-docinfo; apt-extracttemplates 1 apt-extracttemplates Utility to extract DebConf config and templates from Debian packages apt-extracttemplate file 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>