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Asked: 2017-02-28 19:10:26 +0800 CST

Is there a way to make apt-get upgrade not show changelogs?

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I want to be able to script apt-get upgrade to run seamlessly without prompts, but in my experiments, I can't get it to stop showing prompts, even with -y or --force yes. Lately, when setting up RPis from scratch, this is an example offender that I simply have to hit q to continue with the upgrade:

ca-certificates (20141019+deb8u2) stable; urgency=medium

  Update Mozilla certificate authority bundle to version 2.9.
    The following certificate authorities were added (+):
    + "Certplus Root CA G1"
    + "Certplus Root CA G2"
    + "Certum Trusted Network CA 2"
    + "Hellenic Academic and Research Institutions ECC RootCA 2015"
    + "Hellenic Academic and Research Institutions RootCA 2015"
    + "ISRG Root X1"
    + "OpenTrust Root CA G1"
    + "OpenTrust Root CA G2"
    + "OpenTrust Root CA G3"
    + "SZAFIR ROOT CA2"
    The following certificate authorities were removed (-):
    - "CA Disig"
    - "NetLock Business (Class B) Root"
    - "NetLock Express (Class C) Root"
    - "NetLock Notary (Class A) Root"
    - "NetLock Qualified (Class QA) Root"
    - "Sonera Class 1 Root CA"
    - "Staat der Nederlanden Root CA"
    - "Verisign Class 1 Public Primary Certification Authority - G2"
    - "Verisign Class 3 Public Primary Certification Authority"
    - "Verisign Class 3 Public Primary Certification Authority - G2"

 -- Michael Shuler <[email protected]>  Fri, 18 Nov 2016 09:09:47 -0600

Honestly, this is annoying even when I'm manually running the program as it can take several minutes and I will walk off, expecting to come back to a completed task and only find it to be paused part way through.

I saw something about making it quieter with -qq or something, but I'm a bit afraid it might overwrite a conf file that differs from defaults (while annoying, I find that to be acceptable).

So, honestly, I don't even know how to ask the right question - I just want this prompt gone.

linux apt raspbian

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    The output you are seeing comes from the apt-listchanges package, which is not default. There are multiple ways you can prevent the changes from pausing the update process:

    1. Set APT_LISTCHANGES_FRONTEND=cat in the environment
    2. Edit /etc/apt/listchanges.conf and set frontend=cat under the apt section
    3. Uninstall the apt-listchanges package
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