#!/usr/bin/python3 import apt import apt_pkg import os.path if __name__ == "__main__": apt_pkg.config.set("APT::Update::Pre-Invoke::", "touch /tmp/update-about-to-run") apt_pkg.config.set("APT::Update::Post-Invoke::", "touch /tmp/update-was-run") c = apt.Cache() res = c.update(apt.progress.TextFetchProgress()) print("res: ", res) assert os.path.exists("/tmp/update-about-to-run")