#!/usr/bin/python # example how to deal with the depcache import apt import sys from apt.progress import InstallProgress class TextInstallProgress(InstallProgress): def __init__(self): apt.progress.InstallProgress.__init__(self) self.last = 0.0 def updateInterface(self): InstallProgress.updateInterface(self) if self.last >= self.percent: return sys.stdout.write("\r[%s] %s\n" %(self.percent, self.status)) sys.stdout.flush() self.last = self.percent def conffile(self, current, new): print "conffile prompt: %s %s" % (current, new) def error(self, errorstr): print "got dpkg error: '%s'" % errorstr cache = apt.Cache(apt.progress.OpTextProgress()) fprogress = apt.progress.TextFetchProgress() iprogress = TextInstallProgress() pkg = cache["3dchess"] # install or remove, the importend thing is to keep us busy :) if pkg.isInstalled: print "Going to delete %s" % pkg.name pkg.markDelete() else: print "Going to install %s" % pkg.name pkg.markInstall() res = cache.commit(fprogress, iprogress) print res sys.exit(0)