Can I avoid apt?

[Colin Watson]

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]