On 2017-08-07, Felix Miata <mrma...@earthlink.net> wrote: > >> 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?
Did you try first at the command line? apt update -o Apt::Color=0 I suppose if that worked you could create an alias until someone figures out where and how to put it. -- “Certitude is not the test of certainty.” --Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.