Bug#318786: apt-get install should display a progress indicator when setting up

[Michael Vogt <mvo@debian.org>]

On Mon, Jul 18, 2005 at 10:39:31AM -0700, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 17, 2005 at 06:34:05PM +0100, Colin S. Miller wrote:
> > Package: apt
> > Version: 0.5.28.6
> > Severity: wishlist
> > 
> > 
> > apt-get displays progress bars when its downloading files.
> > However, when it is exctacting and configuring the .debs,
> > there is no indication of how long this is likely to take.
> > 
> > Replacing the
> > Setting up apt
> > line with
> > Setting up apt (3/20, 14% complete)
> 
> This would be complicated to implement this way (because that message is
> printed by dpkg, not apt), but a progress indicator could perhaps be added
> on a separate line.

This is similar to #185424. There is a patch
(michael.vogt@ubuntu.com--2005/apt--progress-reporting--0) that adds
progress reporting over a fd, it should be easy to change the code so
that it can display progress information to the user on stdout (if
that is desired).

Cheers,
 Michael

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