apt-extracttemplates

Extract debconf templates from packages

$ apt-extracttemplates [package.deb]

$ apt-extracttemplates -t [/tmp/templates] [package.deb]

apt-extracttemplates [-t tempdir] packages

apt-extracttemplates extracts debconf templates and configuration scripts from Debian packages. It's used internally by APT during package installation to gather configuration information.
The extracted templates contain questions that debconf uses to configure packages during installation.

-t dir, --tempdir dir

Directory for extracted files

Configuration file

This is primarily an internal APT tool. Most users interact with debconf through frontend tools rather than directly extracting templates.

apt-extracttemplates is part of the APT package management infrastructure, supporting the debconf configuration system.

apt(8), debconf(7), dpkg(1)