apt is a new tool that has been introduced to take over the functionality of apt-get and apt-cache. It has fancy and colorful progress bars that can be enabled using this:
$ sudo -s $ echo 'Dpkg::Progress-Fancy "1";' > /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/99progressbar $ exit
Tried with: Ubuntu 14.04
Tagged: apt, apt-get, color, progressbar
