Re: Increasing the verbosity of "apt-get"

[Osamu Aoki <osamu@debian.org>]

On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 07:15:02PM +0000, Camaleón wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I wonder if it is possible to increase the verbosity of "apt-get" console 
> output.
> 
> For example, in my perpetual "testing" machine, I use this one-liner to 
> update the system:
> 
> ***
> apt-get update && apt-get -V dist-upgrade
> ***
> 
> But sometimes I get new packages to be installed (mostly due to 
> dependencies coming from another packages) and I would like to know more 
> information about the source (what package requirement pulls the 
> installation of the new package, from what repo is the package to be 
> installed coming, etc...).


As for using apt-get, you may think about using "-s" first.  "apt-cache
policy ..." may be your friend.

For such interactive package relationship browsing etc, aptitude does
better job. 

Osamu