Op 08-08-17 om 02:57 schreef Felix Miata:
Brian composed on 2017-08-07 33:42 (UTC+0100):Of course they work. They just do not fit your purpose.Work how? Do what? How do I find evidence that either actually do anything? So far all I've seen is that you've said so, here, & earlier, 2017-08-07 18:03 (UTC+0100):
It's possible some configuration file already has a line which sets Dpkg::Progress-Fancy and/or Dpkg::Progress-Fancy::Progress-Bg. Did you check the files in /etc/apt/apt.conf.d?
Regards, Frank