On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 07:15:02PM +0000, Camaleón wrote: > Hello, > > I wonder if it is possible to increase the verbosity of "apt-get" console > output. > > For example, in my perpetual "testing" machine, I use this one-liner to > update the system: > > *** > apt-get update && apt-get -V dist-upgrade > *** > > But sometimes I get new packages to be installed (mostly due to > dependencies coming from another packages) and I would like to know more > information about the source (what package requirement pulls the > installation of the new package, from what repo is the package to be > installed coming, etc...).
As for using apt-get, you may think about using "-s" first. "apt-cache policy ..." may be your friend. For such interactive package relationship browsing etc, aptitude does better job. Osamu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20101028140423.ga12...@debian.org
