Hi all, While I'm asking the same question at https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/555993/verbosity-in-aptitude-command-line-mode
just for completeness asking the same here too - This is related to a question I asked about 3 years ago. https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/235667/till-what-depth-can-aptitude-v-verbose-work Since then things have changed a bit apparently. One of the obvious ones is that aptitude itself has changed from whatever version it was at that point in time to aptitude 0.8.12 or to be more precise - $ aptitude --version aptitude 0.8.12 Compiler: g++ 9.2.1 20190821 Compiled against: apt version 5.0.2 NCurses version 6.1 libsigc++ version: 2.10.1 Gtk+ support disabled. Qt support disabled. Current library versions: NCurses version: ncurses 6.1.20191019 cwidget version: 0.5.18 Apt version: 5.0.2 The other thing which has changed is aptitude has its documentation in aptitude-doc-en and the point/documentation I am interested is located in - file:///usr/share/doc/aptitude/html/en/ch02s05s05.html where it says - Option: Aptitude::CmdLine::Verbose Default: 0 Description: This controls how verbose the command-line mode of aptitude is. Every occurrence of the -v command-line option adds 1 to this value. Now the configuration file is supposed to be in one of the three places and I chose and made a 3-4 lines at $ cat ~/.aptitude/config Aptitude ""; Aptitude::CmdLine ""; Aptitude::CmdLine::Verbose "2"; Now I don't know if this is good enough or not. I tried the following commands - $ sudo apt update and $ sudo aptitude update But neither gave me any more output. Am I doing something wrong ? Feel free to either unix.stackexchange.com or the mailing list to answer the question/query. -- Regards, Shirish Agarwal शिरीष अग्रवाल My quotes in this email licensed under CC 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ http://flossexperiences.wordpress.com E493 D466 6D67 59F5 1FD0 930F 870E 9A5B 5869 609C _______________________________________________ Aptitude-devel mailing list Aptitude-devel@alioth-lists.debian.net https://alioth-lists.debian.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/aptitude-devel