Can I avoid apt?
Colin Watson
cjwatson at ubuntu.com
Sun Sep 24 07:42:54 UTC 2017
On Sat, Sep 23, 2017 at 07:39:13PM -0700, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
> I don't like apt. I'm in the habit of doing my updates under the script(1)
> command and that banner that apt puts at the bottom of the screen makes the
> files unreadable.
>
> Is there a way to disable it? Possibly by lying to apt about my terminal's
> capabilities?
There may be a more graceful way to do it and it seems to be
undocumented, but setting quiet::NoUpdate=true (e.g. with a "-o"
command-line option to apt) should do the trick.
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Colin Watson [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]
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