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Setting user prompted values during apt-get install (e.g. tzdata)

Installing php-fpm on Ubuntu 22:04 prompts for some timezone values during install which makes it more difficult to install during a ‘docker build’ since passing -y to apt-get-install is not enough to respond to the prompts.

Here’s what I’m prompted for if I just run ‘apt-get install php-fpm’:

Configuring tzdata
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Please select the geographic area in which you live. Subsequent configuration
questions will narrow this down by presenting a list of cities, representing
the time zones in which they are located.

  1. Africa   3. Antarctica  5. Arctic  7. Atlantic  9. Indian    11. US
  2. America  4. Australia   6. Asia    8. Europe    10. Pacific  12. Etc
Geographic area: 8

Please select the city or region corresponding to your time zone.

  1. Amsterdam    17. Guernsey     33. Monaco      49. Stockholm
  2. Andorra      18. Helsinki     34. Moscow      50. Tallinn
  3. Astrakhan    19. Isle_of_Man  35. Nicosia     51. Tirane
  4. Athens       20. Istanbul     36. Oslo        52. Tiraspol
  5. Belfast      21. Jersey       37. Paris       53. Ulyanovsk
  6. Belgrade     22. Kaliningrad  38. Podgorica   54. Uzhgorod
  7. Berlin       23. Kirov        39. Prague      55. Vaduz
  8. Bratislava   24. Kyiv         40. Riga        56. Vatican
  9. Brussels     25. Lisbon       41. Rome        57. Vienna
  10. Bucharest   26. Ljubljana    42. Samara      58. Vilnius
  11. Budapest    27. London       43. San_Marino  59. Volgograd
  12. Busingen    28. Luxembourg   44. Sarajevo    60. Warsaw
  13. Chisinau    29. Madrid       45. Saratov     61. Zagreb
  14. Copenhagen  30. Malta        46. Simferopol  62. Zaporozhye
  15. Dublin      31. Mariehamn    47. Skopje      63. Zurich
  16. Gibraltar   32. Minsk        48. Sofia
Time zone: 27


Current default time zone: 'Europe/London'
Local time is now:      Tue Sep 24 16:39:08 BST 2024.
Universal Time is now:  Tue Sep 24 15:39:08 UTC 2024.
Run 'dpkg-reconfigure tzdata' if you wish to change it.

From answers on this post, the easiest option (rather than setting values for the prompted values) is to run in non-interactive mode, and just default the tz to UTC, with:

DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive TZ=Etc/UTC apt-get install php-fpm

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Paul Allen’s Living Computer Museum computer collection being auctioned by Christies – last day tomorrow (12/9/24)

Paul Allen’s computer collection that was previously on display at the Living Computer Museum in Seattle is currently under auction by Christies – the last day to pick up your own DEC PDP-10, IBM 7090 Mainframe or many other historical computers is tomorrow (12 Sept 2024).

The museum has been closed since COVID, and Paul Allen’s estate have decided to sell off the collection. Many of the machines are in working order and were maintained by the museum, so hopefully the machines will find new homes where this computer history can be experienced by many in the future.

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Re-tagging and re-organizing mp3 collection by Artist and Album folders using MusicBrainz Picard (after Google Takeout)

Following on from my recent post about downloading our complete CD collection from YouTube Music, the next part of the puzzle was to re-tag and reorganize the files my adding back the majority of the missing mp3 tags, and re-organizing them again into their own folders by Artist and Album.

While the YouTube Music Google Takeout worked fine, the zips of downloaded files have lost their enclosing folders, and in most cases most only have a filename and no mp3 tags. Which is odd, because when we originally ripped our CDs in iTunes I thought they were tagged as well, but apparently not. Or at least something was lost during the import to Google Music, the migration to YouTube Music, or the Google Takeout process.

Anyway, realizing that organizing 40GB of files is not a trivial task, I looked around to find mp3 tagging tools that could help me out. The most recommended seemed to be MusicBrainz Picard which does exactly what I need: it identifies files, adds missing tags, and also moves the files into appropriate folders.

From the source folder of all my downloaded files, you drag the untagged files in to organize and press Scan:

Once a track is scanned (and you can load multiple files for processing in one go), on the righthand side it lists what album the track appears on, base on it’s audio fingerprint. While in most cases it works great, in some cases if a track exists on multiple different releases it might suggest something that’s is correct but maybe not the actual physical disk that you ripped it from. In this base ‘Bad Medicine’ by Bon Jovi is showing as coming from a 4 track record called Bad Medicine, maybe an EP:

Tool has also highlighted where there is a difference in track length between the scanned file and what is on this disc:

In this case, pressing the ‘Lookup in Browser’ button takes you to the MusicBrainz website where you can browse all the identified albums where this track has been identified:

Knowing this track was from my ripped copy of New Jersey, pressing the Open in Tagger icon copies this album into the tool:

Now you can drag the identified track from the misidentified album to the correct album:

Press Save and the file is correctly tagged and moved to it’s correct folder.

While most files seem to be correctly identified, this tool is a massive help to recategorize everything again!

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