liquidat
Since I had to switch to Ubuntu I was looking for a way to make the output of apt more user friendly.
TIL about -V, which is already helpful, and nala, which is very close to dnf output. Nice!
Mar 26, 2025 at 12:07pmWeb
Show threadzhenechMar 26, 2025
@liquidat you *had* to switch?
Show threadliquidatMar 26, 2025
@zhenech Indeed, for my the machine I use for work.
Show threadDennis HoppeMar 26, 2025

@zhenech @liquidat Do not worry. This tool is even available for Debian. 😉

https://gitlab.com/volian/nala

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Show threadzhenechMar 26, 2025
@dhoppe @liquidat I'm happy with the new apt UI and dnf(4) ;)
Show threadliquidatMar 27, 2025

@zhenech @dhoppe
Nice, I didn't knew about the new apt UI! But that is only available with 24.10+, and corporate requires Ubuntu LTS, which is 24.04 for another year and a half. 😅

But @zhenech , what do you mean with DNF? Do you use that on Ubuntu/Debian machines? Or on everything else?

Show threadzhenechMar 27, 2025
@liquidat @dhoppe I've been using Fedora on my primary desktop since 2015 ;)
Most servers are still Debian though.
Show threadliquidatMar 27, 2025
@zhenech @dhoppe Ah, ok, makes sense 😂
Show threadDennis HoppeMar 27, 2025
@zhenech @liquidat Fair enough, but can apt do parallel downloads?
Show threadzhenechMar 27, 2025
@dhoppe @liquidat No, why would one need that?
Show threadDennis HoppeMar 27, 2025
@zhenech @liquidat One of the many mirrors might use traffic shaping and some packages are a pain to download, for example gitlab-runner. One day I might have the time to figure out why this package is that big.
Show threadzhenechMar 27, 2025
@dhoppe @liquidat ah yes. Luckily deb.debian.org is behind Fastly, and that's fast enough 🤷‍♀️
Show threadMensch AntimeierMar 26, 2025
@liquidat
nala is great 🤩