Finally I found how to fully shut up apt-get!
18 Aug 2022I am always using Google Colab, but in many cases I also need to install something using apt-get. The problem was that sometimes you need to add a new repository, update, install… then your notebook becomes full of text and that eats your memory (locally too as the browser needs to render that after all). So, today I found a nice post explaining the reason why the -qq argument may still leave some bits of text behind. You should go there and read it by yourself, but I will copy some info here in case that website disappears.
To add a new repository:
sudo apt-add-repository ppa:some-repository-here -y > /dev/null
And the ultimate commands:
sudo DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt-get update -qq < /dev/null > /dev/null
and
sudo DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt-get install some_cool_free_software -qq < /dev/null > /dev/null
As I started this post mentioning Google Colab, I think it’s worth pasting here the recipe to shut up pip as well:
pip -q install --upgrade some_cool_python_package > /dev/null