Introduction to the ATP progress bar function in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS comes pre-installed with version 0.9.15 of a new ATP tool for installing and managing DEB-based packages. One of the new features is the addition of a "progress bar" function to Terminal, which I personally feel is a bit closer to YUM.

Although many friends feel that this "progress bar" seems a bit redundant, personally, I feel that this kind of detailed improvement is still very humane. If you have installed a large number of software in Terminal, such as upgrading the Ubuntu version, the display of the "progress bar" is much more convenient than the screen full of commands jumping around.

The progress bar will be displayed at the bottom of the terminal interface to show the overall progress of the APT-command:

Enable progress bar display in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:

By default, Ubuntu 14.04 will not display the progress bar of the ATP command in the terminal. If we want to enable this new feature, we need to use administrator rights to change the ATP configuration file. The simplest method is to execute the following command:

echo 'Dpkg::Progress-Fancy "1";' > /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/99progressbar

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