Greg Wooledge wrote: > >From an end user's point of view, the three main differences between > "apt-get" and "apt" are: > > 3) apt uses a horrible yellow color that is nigh-unreadable on a white > background. (This is not configurable.)
It appears that it is, just badly documented. In /etc/apt/apt.conf, you can specify the escape sequences for colors like this: APT::Color::Yellow "ESC[33m"; changing 33 to 30 will get you black. ANSI color escapes are on the web in many places. -dsr-