On Mon 07 Aug 2017 at 08:05:28 -0400, Felix Miata wrote: > Darac Marjal composed on 2017-08-07 11:20 (UTC+0100): > > > 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"; > > >>ought to do it in some file in /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/, but by what filename, > >>and > >>what are the magic strings? Google doesn't seem to want to show anything > >>other > >>than enabling, which is the apparent default that I want eradicated. > > > Try "APT::Color "false";". > That was the last I tried with Stretch before giving up and posting here, in > /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/99mono. Also fails in Sid. > > Could this somehow be coming from bash rather than apt?
Worth reading: /usr/share/doc/apt/examples/configure-index.gz Try: Dpkg::Progress-Fancy::progress-bg "%1b[40m" -- Brian.
