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Re: aptitude question



On Thu, Sep 04, 2008 at 09:25:31AM +0000, Dan wrote:
>    informational messages that appear on screen during the actual
>    installation of a package are recorded. I thought I could find them in
>    dpkg log file ( /var/log/dpkg.log ) but at present I can not find any.

not laptop-specific, though try man dpkg / man apt - aptitude is a
front-end to apt/dpkg, which keep the list/pkg database in /var/lib/apt 
and /var/lib/dpkg resp., and infos/question during install come from pkg
template which are then stored in /var/lib/dpkg/info.


HTH
-- 
paolo


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