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I'm having a weird issue with apt were it hangs during apt update. I want to enable verbose output to see what exactly is causing this problem or at least where it occurs. The manpage for apt-get doesn't seem to contain anything related.

How can I enable verbose output for apt?

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The apt tools provide a number of Debug configuration options, that you can either set persistently via a file in /etc/apt/apt.conf.d or (probably more usefully) pass as a -oDebug:: option on the command line.

The Debug::pkgAcquire group looks like the most relevant for the issues that you are describing. From man apt.conf:

  Debug::pkgAcquire::Worker
       Log all interactions with the sub-processes that actually perform
       downloads.

So for example you can try

sudo apt -oDebug::pkgAcquire::Worker=1 update
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    Use man apt.conf and search for DEBUG to get a list of these options.
    – Berwyn
    Commented Nov 30, 2023 at 1:19

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