Can I avoid apt?

Tom H tomh0665 at gmail.com
Sun Sep 24 19:19:06 UTC 2017


On Sat, Sep 23, 2017 at 10:39 PM, Kevin O'Gorman <kogorman at gmail.com> 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?

IIRC, you have to set 'DPKG::Progress-Fancy "0";' in "/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/".




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