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The design of debconf allows for front-ends for answering configuration questions to be added in a modular way, and there exist several, such as one for the terminal, one for KDE, one for GNOME, etc.
If you want to reconfigure your debconf option run the following command
#dpkg-reconfigure debconf
It will open the following screen with frontend options
Debconf Frontend Options
dialog
According to standard the used front-end on basis of whiptail or to dialogue. A simple graphic surface on text basis
readline
Simple one, purely text-based surface. A question is asked, and values must be entered. Very well suitably, in order to work remotely on a system.
gnome
A modern front-end on basis of the GNOME and GTK libraries.
kde
A modern front-end on basis of the QT-libraries
editor
This front-end is for *nix Freaks,
noninteractive
This is actually none front-ends, because no questions are indicated
Now it will give the message about priority settings
Now it will give the available priority options like the following screen
debconf Priority levels
low
medium
high
critical
For more information and details check debconf man page
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March 22nd, 2007 at 11:16 am
If you want a real simple non-interactive installation - for automatic installations, do :
export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive
September 8th, 2007 at 9:28 am
Be nice to have recommended options, even for Mr|Mrs average?
April 30th, 2008 at 9:44 pm
Thank you. export did the trick for my issue, though I used:
export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=dialog