[Lincoln LUG] apt-get

[Chris Burton]

> 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

If the output it going to stderr you'll need something like this 

sudo apt-get update > error.txt 2>&1

Or using script

script  error.txt -c "sudo apt-get update"

ChrisB.

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