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Re: disable orange progress running apt



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On Mon, Aug 07, 2017 at 04:47:08AM -0400, Felix Miata wrote:
> tomas@tuxteam.de composed on 2017-08-07 10:25 (UTC+0200):
> 
> > On Mon, Aug 07, 2017 at 04:16:05AM -0400, Felix Miata wrote:
> 
> >> Google and man pages for apt, apt-config and apt.conf have gotten me nowhere in
> >> over an hour of searching how to keep apt output limited to the two screen
> >> colors in which it is running. Something like
> 
> >> 	Apt::what-goes "here";
> 
> > Took me a while to parse that :)
> 
> > You mean you want apt behaving in a "monochrome" way, i.e. foreground,
> > background and that's it? 
> 
> I thought that would be the interpretation of "two screen colors in which it is
> running".

OK, that's how I parsed it. Good, then :)

> > Perhaps setting the TERM variable helps? Like, for example
> 
> >   TERM=xterm-mono apt

In the meantime I tested with ls, which this one seems to ignore that
variable.

I didn't even know apt did colors. Can you give an example?

Cheers
- -- tomás
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