APT 2.9 Released: Debian's APT 3.0 To Have A New UI With Colors, Columnar Display & More

[Pander]

See also https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/lat...package-module for dealing in one way with different package managers.

[billyswong]

I've never looked back at APT after switching to nala.

I take a look at nala. It looks more like a TUI then pure CLI? I can always go to Synaptic if I want elaborated interface if better information.

[debrouxl]

In case someone wonders how to disable columnar list output:
* pass -o APT::Get::List-Columns=0 when invoking apt;
* add APT::Get::List-Columns "0"; to /etc/apt/apt.conf or in a (preferably new, I guess) file in /etc/apt/apt.conf.d .

[Vistaus]

I take a look at nala. It looks more like a TUI then pure CLI? I can always go to Synaptic if I want elaborated interface if better information.

So I take it you won't upgrade to APT 3.0 then?

[Artim]

I take a look at nala. It looks more like a TUI then pure CLI? I can always go to Synaptic if I want elaborated interface if better information.

No, it's just a much more user friendly CLI that hides irrelevant stuff and makes the important stuff easier to see. And by now it also has gotten its default settings straight. Having a scrolling text for the update log may look better for newbies at the first look, but can hide way to much relevant stuff, so they turned that off.

[Artim]

So I take it you won't upgrade to APT 3.0 then?

It's not something one chooses to, that's up to distro to upgrade the packages.

[Vistaus]

It's not something one chooses to, that's up to distro to upgrade the packages.

You can skip certain upgrades.

[Artim]

You can skip certain upgrades.

Not such fundamental ones.

[NotMine999]

I'm still waiting a common interface will be done by systemd one day for all package managers [ dnf , apt , pacman , ... ]
( Dont get me wrong i'm not against different needs of different package managers, i just want a common interface for endusers )

Then you should stick to Windows. Already done there for long time now.

[Artim]

Then you should stick to Windows. Already done there for long time now.

No, that's just yet another package manager or no package manager at all. But at least there you have WinGetUI, that can handle WinGet, the store, Chocolatey, pip, npm and the PowerShell package manager.

So yes, that has been done there a few years back. But on the CLI front, even Windows has no such thing.