Nala

TIL about Nala, a front-end for libapt-pkg. It is written in Python and uses the python-apt api.

Installation

Nala is the testing and sid repos for Debian. So a simple apt is sufficed.

Installation via Repository

echo "deb https://deb.volian.org/volian/ scar main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/volian-archive-scar-unstable.list
wget -qO - https://deb.volian.org/volian/scar.key | sudo tee /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/volian-archive-scar-unstable.gpg > /dev/null

More details here

Features

• Parrallel downloads - downloads 3 packages per unique mirror by defaults
• Fetch - get the fastest mirror
• History - print summary of transactions and manipulate history with nala history undo <ID> or nala history redo <ID>