yes | apt install whatever could work too.

or just apt -y

Not sure that would work in this case, `apt -y` would tell apt to skip confirmations, packages can still do their own confirmation. Also, NONINTERACTIVE=true (or what it is) I don't think would have worked either, as Oracle famously do their own thing.

It just worked great with the apt packages to install Oracle Java 7 and 8 (when that packages worked...)