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Ubuntu – Geckodriver asking for location. How to remove promts

When installing geckodriver on ubuntu using apt install firefox-geckodriver I get promt saying :

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. SystemV 13. Etc
  2. America 4. Australia 6. Asia 8. Europe 10. Pacific 12. US

Geographic area:

Since this needs manual input, I am unable to run this in docker-compose.
How to remove this prompt or supply default input options in command

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  1. 0

    Edit:
    you can try:

    ARG DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive
ENV TZ=utc/UTC
RUN apt-get install -y [program]
    • TZ being your preferred timezone

    You can wget the latest release tarball from github, extract it and than move it to
    your PATH or add the path to geckodriver to PATH

    wget https://github.com/mozilla/geckodriver/releases/download/v0.31.0/geckodriver-v0.31.0-linux64.tar.gz
tar xvfz geckodriver*
chmod +x geckodriver 
sudo mv geckodriver /usr/local/bin

    Assuming /usr/local/bin is in your PATH

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  2. 0

    DEBIAN_FRONTEND env variable should help, try running with noninteractive option

    DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt install firefox-geckodriver
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