-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Aug 07, 2017 at 04:47:08AM -0400, Felix Miata wrote: > to...@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 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlmIMikACgkQBcgs9XrR2kaN9wCdE8ksDuVYvRhYjnwH6w2I1Gav FDYAnRrIJTXPxrydTin4ehgfs4oU4N2b =NPlR -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
