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Debian spices up APT package manager with a dash of color
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"Color terminal" isn't a thing. Applications can choose to output ANSI escape codes which most terminal emulators will render as color changes. Whether and which colors get used depends on the value of
$TERM
, which informs the application of the capabilities of the terminal emulator.So if your remote servers don't have color, either
$TERM
isn't being set or its value is unknown to the server. Most modern terminal emulators support at least the same escape codes asxterm-256color
though so you can always try to export that.