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Debian is a free operating system (OS) for your computer. An operating system is the set of basic programs and utilities that make your computer run. Debian provides more than a pure OS: it comes with over 59000 packages, precompiled software bundled up in a nice format for easy installation on your machine.

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I want less less in my apt (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 weeks ago by AntY@lemmy.world to c/debian@lemmy.ml

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So I've upgraded to trixie and it comes with apt 3. For some reason the new apt insists on opening the output of some commands in less. For example, "apt list --upgradable" or "apt search" opens the output i less. I can't find how I turn this behavior off. Any advice?

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[–] lurch@sh.itjust.works 6 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

try setting the PAGER env variable to cat. if it works maybe make a wrapper script/function to set it just during apt execution

[–] AntY@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Great! It works. Wonder what wrapper it might be, it behaves the same in zsh, dash and bash.

[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 5 points 3 weeks ago

alias apt="PAGER=cat apt"