Re: disable orange progress running apt

From	Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: disable orange progress running apt
Date	2017-08-07 10:50 +0200
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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".

> Perhaps setting the TERM variable helps? Like, for example

>   TERM=xterm-mono apt

> (make sure there is a xterm-mono, typically in /lib/terminfo/x, and
> that it is compatible with whatever terminal (emulator?) you are using)

I'm doing this in the vttys, in part to avoid colors other than the two set by
setterm in .bashrc. For those rare occasions I would run apt somewhere in X I'd
still like a two colors only (monochrome) version.
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Thread

disable orange progress running apt Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2017-08-07 10:20 +0200
  Re: disable orange progress running apt <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2017-08-07 10:30 +0200
    Re: disable orange progress running apt Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2017-08-07 10:50 +0200
      Re: disable orange progress running apt <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2017-08-07 11:30 +0200
        Re: disable orange progress running apt Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2017-08-07 14:00 +0200
          Re: disable orange progress running apt <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2017-08-07 15:10 +0200
            Re: disable orange progress running apt Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2017-08-07 15:20 +0200
              Re: disable orange progress running apt <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2017-08-07 15:40 +0200
              Re: disable orange progress running apt Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2017-08-07 17:20 +0200
              Re: disable orange progress running apt Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2017-08-08 01:40 +0200
  Re: disable orange progress running apt Darac Marjal <mailinglist@darac.org.uk> - 2017-08-07 12:30 +0200
    Re: disable orange progress running apt Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2017-08-07 14:10 +0200
      Re: disable orange progress running apt Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2017-08-07 14:40 +0200
        Re: disable orange progress running apt <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2017-08-07 15:20 +0200
          Re: disable orange progress running apt Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2017-08-07 19:10 +0200
        Re: disable orange progress running apt Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2017-08-07 21:10 +0200
          Re: disable orange progress running apt Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2017-08-07 23:50 +0200
            Re: disable orange progress running apt Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2017-08-08 03:10 +0200
              Re: disable orange progress running apt Frank <zuiderduin@gmx.com> - 2017-08-08 10:40 +0200
                Re: disable orange progress running apt Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2017-08-08 11:40 +0200
                Re: disable orange progress running apt Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2017-08-08 15:00 +0200
                Re: disable orange progress running apt Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2017-08-08 20:10 +0200
                Re: disable orange progress running apt Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2017-08-09 19:20 +0200
                Re: disable orange progress running apt Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2017-08-09 19:30 +0200
                Re: disable orange progress running apt Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2017-08-09 20:40 +0200
      Re: disable orange progress running apt Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2017-08-07 14:50 +0200
        Re: disable orange progress running apt Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2017-08-07 17:10 +0200
          Re: disable orange progress running apt Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2017-08-07 17:30 +0200
            Re: disable orange progress running apt Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2017-08-07 22:20 +0200
              Re: disable orange progress running apt Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2017-08-07 22:30 +0200
            Re: disable orange progress running apt Erik Christiansen <dvalin@internode.on.net> - 2017-08-08 08:00 +0200
      Re: disable orange progress running apt Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2017-08-08 10:20 +0200
        Re: disable orange progress running apt Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2017-08-08 12:00 +0200

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