Need help: Automatically accept EULA with apt-get

[ooshlablu]

I need apt-get to automatically accept the licence agreement for Sun Java 6, which will be part of a script that generates amazon ec2 images. The rest of the script is all set, and this is the only thing that I need. Any help is appreciated

[sethvath]

sudo apt-get -y install sun-java6-bin

[ooshlablu]

that's what i though at first too, but -y is only for apt-get itself, for instance overwriting config files. I tried it, and it doesn't touch the EULA. thanks for the reply.

[bodhi.zazen]

When you install the EULA should come up. Scroll through it, hit the tab key, hit enter.

[ooshlablu]

is there some way that i could input the "tab" and "enter" keys in the bash script??? I need the eula to be accepted automatically with no user input.

[sethvath]

I was certain another java install script posted on this forum used a similar function with --yes

Might have better luck doing a search here, I cant seem to find the exact one.

[jamesstansell]

For scripting bash you might look into expect or something similar. http://www.kdab.net/~dfaure/scripts.html

The sun-java6-* packages look for the presence of a file to indicate that the license has been accepted. If you pre-create that file your install will probably succeed.

Or, you might consider the openjdk-6 packages. On the server side they are _highly_ compatible with the sun-java6 packages.

Regards,

-james.

[ooshlablu]

thank you for the replies. As of yet, i still haven't found a solution, but please keep posting as I feel that there are many who will find this useful.

[paskie]

DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt-get install -y java5-sun-jre || :
debconf 'echo SET shared/accepted-sun-dlj-v1-1 true; echo $(read) >&2'
apt-get install -y java5-sun-jre

I so much hate dpkg for botching up this license stuff and taking 40 minutes of my life now...

[raptor2552]

You can echo a tab in bash shells using:

echo $'\t'

\n = newline
\r = return
\t = tab
\v = vertical tab
\b = backspace
\a = "alert" (beep or flash)
-or- 
ASCII octal equivalent of 0xx
\0xx