First of all, lets understand why the message appears. In fact, if the package do not have dependencies that you have not installed already or that you explicitly told it to install, apt never asks you:
➜ ~ sudo apt-get -qq install xfce4-screenshooter
Selecting previously unselected package xfce4-screenshooter.
(Reading database ... 296146 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../xfce4-screenshooter_1.8.1-2_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking xfce4-screenshooter (1.8.1-2) ...
Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme (0.13-1) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.6.7.1-1) ...
Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.13.3-1) ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.22-1) ...
Processing triggers for mime-support (3.56) ...
Setting up xfce4-screenshooter (1.8.1-2) ...
While if you want to install a package that depends on packages you didn't mention it would ask:
➜ ~ sudo apt-get -q install avis
Reading package lists...
Building dependency tree...
Reading state information...
The following extra packages will be installed:
libjzlib-java libmina-java libslf4j-java
Suggested packages:
libmina-java-doc libspring-beans-java libcommons-logging-java
liblog4j1.2-java
The following NEW packages will be installed:
avis libjzlib-java libmina-java libslf4j-java
0 upgraded, 4 newly installed, 0 to remove and 14 not upgraded.
Need to get 720 kB of archives.
After this operation, 1,258 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
Which even so, wouldn't ask if you also implicitly says that you want to install those package:
➜ ~ apt-get -q install avis libjzlib-java libmina-java libslf4j-java
Reading package lists...
Building dependency tree...
Reading state information...
Suggested packages:
libmina-java-doc libspring-beans-java libcommons-logging-java
liblog4j1.2-java
The following NEW packages will be installed:
avis libjzlib-java libmina-java libslf4j-java
0 upgraded, 4 newly installed, 0 to remove and 14 not upgraded.
Inst libjzlib-java (1.1.3-1 Debian:testing [all])
Inst libslf4j-java (1.7.7-1 Debian:testing [all])
Inst libmina-java (1.1.7.dfsg-11 Debian:testing [all])
Inst avis (1.2.2-2 Debian:testing [all])
Conf libjzlib-java (1.1.3-1 Debian:testing [all])
Conf libslf4j-java (1.7.7-1 Debian:testing [all])
Conf libmina-java (1.1.7.dfsg-11 Debian:testing [all])
Conf avis (1.2.2-2 Debian:testing [all])
But, then, how to make it that it doesn't ask you definitively? Through Rizwind answer should cover ad-hoc and scripting solutions (in fact, that option is more used in scripts) you could instead modify your apt.conf
file and add:
APT::Get::Assume-Yes
Something like this should be enough:
echo 'APT::Get::Assume-Yes;' | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/00Do-not-ask
Note, this won't allow other more egregious prompts that you should verify, like:
➜ ~ sudo apt-get install sonar
WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated!
sonar
Install these packages without verification? [y/N]
Which is why I wouldn't recommend the use of yes | ...
, since this warning would be ignored.