Establecer el DEBIAN_FRONTENDa noninteractive:
DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt-get ...
Esto también es aplicable a dpkg --reconfigure, dpkg-configure, etc.
De man 7 debconf:
noninteractive
This is the anti-frontend. It never interacts with you at all,
and makes the default answers be used for all questions. It
might mail error messages to root, but that's it; otherwise it
is completely silent and unobtrusive, a perfect frontend for
automatic installs. If you are using this front-end, and require
non-default answers to questions, you will need to preseed the
debconf database; see the section below on Unattended Package
Installation for more details.
Si configura noninteractive, debe considerar responder debconfpreguntas utilizando debconf-set-selections.
man 7 debconfen ubuntu 16.04 primero debe instalardebconf-doc, por ejemplosudo apt-get install debconf-doc