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Why was package loco deleted from Maverick?

Asked by Damiön la Bagh

I just installed loco on my Karmic and Lucid machines and find it to be a very useful way of color syntax highlighting the log files to rapidly discover errors.
I went to install it on one of my Maverick machines to find the package had been deleted.

-Why was this package deleted from Maverick?

-What is the alternative that is just as quick and easy to use?

use was
loco /var/log/messages
loco /var/log/syslog
loco /var/log/auth.log
etc.

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Best Andrew Rendle (andrew-andrewr) said : 		#1

I think loco was removed because it was being synchronised from Debian and was removed there in June at the request of the maintainer (see http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=587245.)

There are a few alternatives mentioned: ccze, lwatch (which says its default colours are the same as loco), and colortail, all three of which are in Maverick. To get a similar output to loco, try:

ccze -A < /var/log/messages

lwatch -i - < /var/log/messages

colortail /var/log/messages

(Note that ccze & ccze read from stdin rather than taking a filename as an argument.)

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Damiön la Bagh (kat-amsterdam) said : 		#2

Thanks Andrew Rendle, that solved my question.