On Tue 08 Aug 2017 at 05:32:04 -0400, Felix Miata wrote: > Frank composed on 2017-08-08 10:31 (UTC+0200): > > > Felix Miata composed: > > >> Brian composed on 2017-08-07 33:42 (UTC+0100): > > >>> Of course they work. They just do not fit your purpose. > > >> Work how? Do what? How do I find evidence that either actually do > >> anything? So > >> far all I've seen is that you've said so, here, & earlier, 2017-08-07 18:03 > >> (UTC+0100): > > > It's possible some configuration file already has a line which sets > > Dpkg::Progress-Fancy and/or Dpkg::Progress-Fancy::Progress-Bg. Did you > > check the files in /etc/apt/apt.conf.d? > > Yes, then I created a new file there just to install Brian's suggestion, and > after it failed the other permutations I tried.
Apologies. I missed off a ";" when translating the changelog entry to be used in your 99mono file. Also Progress-Fancy turns out to be not what you want. "-o Apt::Color=0" works for me not to see the orange colour in stable and unstable. In a file it works on stable but not on unstable. There seems to be a bug here. -- Brian.