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Install-progress reporting 
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If the apt options: "APT::Status-Fd" is set, apt will send status
9.1.86 by Michael Vogt, Michael Vogt, Jon Severinsson, Guillem Jover
[ Michael Vogt ]
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reports to that fd. The status information is separated with a ':',
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there are the following status conditions:
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status = {"pmstatus", "dlstatus", "conffile-prompt", "error", "media-change" } 
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The reason for using a fd instead of a OpProgress class is that many
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apt frontend fork a (vte) terminal for the actual installation.
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The reason to do the mapping and l10n of the dpkg states to human
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readable (and translatable) strings is that this way the translation
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needs to be done only once for all frontends.
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pmstatus
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Status of the package manager (dpkg). This is send when packages
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are installed/removed.
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pmstatus:pkgname:TotalPercentage:action-description
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PkgName = the name of the package
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TotalPercentage = the total progress between [0..100] 
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description = a i18ned human readable decription of the current action
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Example:
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# ./apt-get install -o APT::Status-Fd=2 3dchess >/dev/null
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pmstatus:3dchess:20:Preparing 3dchess
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pmstatus:3dchess:40:Unpacking 3dchess
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pmstatus:3dchess:60:Preparing to configure 3dchess
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pmstatus:3dchess:80:Configuring 3dchess
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pmstatus:3dchess:100:Installed 3dchess
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pmerror
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pmerror:deb:TotalPercentage:error string
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Example:
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pmerror: /var/cache/apt/archives/krecipes_0.8.1-0ubuntu1_i386.deb : 75% : trying to overwrite `/usr/share/doc/kde/HTML/en/krecipes/krectip.png', which is also in package krecipes-data 
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pmconffile
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pmconffile:conffile:percent:'current-conffile' 'new-conffile' useredited distedited
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media-change
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media-change:medium:drive:human-readable string
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example:
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media-change: Ubuntu 5.10 _Breezy Badger_ - Alpha i386 (20050830):/cdrom/:Please insert the disc labeled: 'Ubuntu 5.10 _Breezy Badger_ - Alpha i386 (20050830)' in the drive '/cdrom/' and press enter.
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dlstatus
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dlstatus:AlreadDownloaded:TotalPercentage:action-description
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AlreadyDownloaded = the number of already downloaded packages
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TotalPercentage = the total progress between [0..100] 
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description = a i18ned human readable decription of the current action
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Example:
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dlstatus:1:9.05654:Downloading file 1 of 3 (4m40s remaining)
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dlstatus:1:9.46357:Downloading file 1 of 3 (4m39s remaining)
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dlstatus:1:9.61022:Downloading file 1 of 3 (4m38s remaining)