[Lincoln LUG] apt-get

[Philip Newborough]

On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 8:36 PM, Kevin Hall <kevin_hall at ntlworld.com> wrote:
> Hi Everyone
>
> Does anyone know how to log the output from apt-get.
>
> With the following, the output is an empty file:
>
> sudo apt-get update > error.txt
>
> sudo apt-get update | tee error.txt
>
> My raspberry pi will not apt-get update and I am trying to post the output.
>
> Regards
>
> Kevin
>

Hey Kevin :)

Have you taken a look inside '/var/log/apt'? It should contain the
logs. Try something like:

    cat /var/log/apt/term.log

or

    cat /var/log/apt/history.log

and add redirection as desired.

 -- Philip