I've heard that apt has a new fancy colour and progress bar feature, but that I have to manually enable it.
How do I do this?
I've heard that apt has a new fancy colour and progress bar feature, but that I have to manually enable it.
How do I do this?
Make a file in: /etc/apt/apt.conf.d
:
sudoedit /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/99progressbar
Then add these contents:
Dpkg::Progress-Fancy "1";
And save the file.
Then if your umask
was not 0027, (i.e. it might also be 0023), then also set this new file's permissions to 644 (i.e. -rw-r--r--) as follows:
$ chmod 644 99progressbar
(Without this permission correction things like Debian's reportbug
will stop working.)
Now enjoy apt progress bars in all their glory:
You can use them with these commands for a nice new apt experience:
apt update
apt install
apt upgrade
Run apt
by itself for the list of commands. Colors are enabled by default for apt
, and do not affect apt-get
.
You can also tweak the color of the progress bar by adding this as well:
Dpkg::Progress-Fancy::Progress-Bg "%1b[40m";
The colors are based on ANSI Color codes, look at this chart as a reference.