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[@volitanktech9303]

Nala developer here. Thank you for showcasing our program! I'm glad you find it useful.

[@AlexanderRainov]

Thanks for the nice package, looks great!

[@averagemamil4523]

Great idea - thank you 🙏👍

[@eXxSe]

It's really nice of you to do something like this, and very helpful for newbies like me. I would love if you can make it work for fedora arch and arch based distros too. If it's possible.

[@volitanktech9303]

@@eXxSe I honestly would love too, but it would be like rewriting the program. It isn't exactly trivial to support rpm and arch distros

[@jonspoonamore3721]

Excellent software. Installed via PACSTALL A-OK on LM20.3 But... Ran into a LIBC6 dependency error on Debian 10. Any chance you guys will backport NALA for older distros???

[@LeonisYT]

Thank God. The disorganized feel of apt is a pet peave of mine and is one of the things that put me on other distros.

[@Dillinger86]

I'm going to name my next pet peeve.

[@justthebeginning1448]

@@Dillinger86 I knew someone would pop a funny for us!🤣

[@meIaniii]

@@Dillinger86 How about Kai? I feel like that's a good name.

[@Dillinger86]

@@justthebeginning1448 I couldn't help it lol

[@MrWarneet]

It's just like DNF on my Fedora install but with colour.

[@xsael8501]

dnf has colors, you have to put `colors=always` in dnf.conf. It is disabled by default, same with pacman.

[@SmarK2K]

@@xsael8501 pacman has colors too??? O_O thanks would have never figured it out !!!!

[@AgentFortySeven47]

This looks exactly like Fedora's DNF layout, which is my favourite package manager layout out there and a big reason why I use Fedora. Nice to see Debian users have access to something similar since the layout of apt sucks by default.

[@haziqsembilanlima]

no wonder it kinda looks familiar. been years since fedora used dnf instead of yum, afaik longer than apt taking over apt-get. I returned to ubuntu because custom repository (PPA) is a lifesaver for people that has little knowledge in compiling and manual install, particularly stuff like oibaf's Mesa driver

[@SFoX-On-Air]

@@haziqsembilanlima It also is the best way to Not-Learn.

[@LeifLiddy]

I about the say the same thing....then I saw your comment. Yes, it absolutely makes it look more like dnf.

[@isaacvicente]

Thats what I would say, its pretty similar and yeah, that's why I use dnf

[@Rotceev]

I love how Linux with its terminal power still remembers we are humans. Nala seems very cool. I remember first time installing and searching packages through linux, it was like stepping into a world hidden behind my wardrobe. with magic lions, fairies, fauns and centaurs...

[@therealslimaddy]

Without looking at the source code I was able to identity it’s implemented in python with rich library. Really nice work by the devs.

[@kennystrawnmusic]

Part of the reason why I currently use Arch-based distros now myself is because of just how superior Pacman is to APT - so good to know that someone is at least trying to bring APT up to par with it. Of course, no third-party solution can possibly mitigate the fact that Ubuntu and its derivatives lack the rolling release nature of Arch - so this alone isn’t enough to convince me to switch back.

[@nabildanial00]

if youre not using ilovecandy, youre using pacman wrong.

[@glidersuzuki5572]

Fedora is also nice

[@glidersuzuki5572]

Also, in what aspect are you saying pacman is better than apt. I used both and don't see why one would be better than the other.

[@kennystrawnmusic]

@@glidersuzuki5572 Fewer characters needed on the command line, a much more standard package format (tarball instead of cpio archive), decentralized (mirrored) repos, and higher compression ratio. And that’s just for starters. As for Fedora, it can only really come close to matching Arch if you’re talking about Rawhide. Fedora releases other than Rawhide still suffer from repository stagnation between releases, a problem that only a rolling model can properly rectify.

[@gabrielevan148]

@@glidersuzuki5572 sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade && sudo apt install htop Vs sudo pacman -Syu htop (long version) sudo pacman --sync --refresh --sysupgrade htop And of course, the ability to use pacman to be a stdin without modifying output result. Example to install all wine packages (wine, winetricks, wine-mono etc) : sudo pacman -S $(pacman -Ssq wine) sq being search and quiet/less verbose result

[@AhoyCapnLinux]

Just to clarify, the name for the type of interface is a TUI or Textual User Interface. :^) Great video thanks for sharing.

[@WaterlessIce]

i installed ubuntu yesterday and DEFINITELY didn’t nuke the desktop while trying to update my nvidia driver. i got it back after 2 hours tho

[@wizard-28]

Thank you for reviewing Nala!

[@christiansilvermoon]

Holy crap I never knew I needed this until today. Nala is NICE. I especially love being able to review history! Never will I forget something I've manually installed again!

[@thierrybo6304]

Yeah, no more /var/log/apt/history digging

[@RobertTreat9]

Looks nice. Synaptic, Discover and Gnome Software are fine front ends too. Thae latter 2 you can add Flatpak and Snap support to.

[@segsfault]

What got me interested in Nala was Parallel Downloads

[@trollchevere4888]

Dude, you make great videos :D

[@bittokazi249]

APT is most popular package manager out there as debian and Ubuntu dominates the server space. It's a tool and it does it's job very well. Highly recommend.

[@Quicken2k]

I see what you did there!. Apt is one of the reason's I don't use Ubuntu I will give it a go with this though. I just hope they stick with it.

[@plebisMaximus]

No thanks, I'm good. I don't get the problems with apt, works great for me. Might not have the latest and greatest and it doesn't give more information than you really need, but it does what it's supposed to. I'm not going to install some foreign package manager, even if it's just a graphical overlay on top of apt. Stability is the entire reason I run Debian to begin with and it won't stay stable if I do everything in my power to move away from the default systems.

[@ashishpatel350]

wow this is nice. hope some distros add this as default.

[@fawzanfawzi9993]

It is like apt but without making non-linux user thinking you are hacking the network.

[@kychemclass5850]

LOL

[@kqvanity]

0:16 Well, there's actually another github source, which if of the exact name and screenshots.

[@cadbane9072]

looks great! is there similar thing on arch?

[@CesarPeron]

Nice!... Would it be a helper like yay in Arch?

[@solomonshields5070]

Clearsigned file isn't valid, got 'NOSPLIT' (does the network require authentication?) //am I missing somthing?

[@dmaberlin]

for example apt knows the reverse dependencies and reads them every time ( that's why it's so slow ) nala does not know reverse dependencies nala does not support working with sources, virtual packages.... what you think about this?

[@lqlarry]

Make an AUR helper for Arch like this and it would be great.

[@zeropotential6830]

after installing nala i cannot open many apps on my ubuntu neither i can uninstall nor i can reinstall them. what to do ?

[@CliffR]

Have you tried nix-env package manager? Would love to hear thoughts

[@Wishwellpomeyie]

It seems to have tempered with the sources list, throws up errors if I attempt to use it. Happened after doing the mirrors: Nala fetch

[@send2gl]

That looks very useful. The show command, can't quite make out if it shows the text to launch that program from the command line.. Shall give this a try.

[@juanmanuelmartin-tss5822]

is it possible to add to nala history what it was previously installed with apt?

[@kras_mazov]

I would like to see this aliased as apt.

[@chue98]

If can no need any command to install softwares is better can use apt/pacman/nala/zypper/rpm.............

[@gx1tar1er]

doas + nala = the future of linux command line & command packages?

[@marufbepary100]

I love this. I use DNF and Apt, but apt looks rancid and apt search is useless because if how messy it is.

[@maximusalfred9266]

Hi, any idea why it won't install on Linux Mint 20.3? I got a return message in the terminal: Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or been moved out of Incoming. The following information may help to resolve the situation: The following packages have unmet dependencies: nala : Depends: python3-anyio but it is not installable Depends: python3-httpx but it is not installable Depends: python3-rich but it is not installable Depends: python3-tomli but it is not installable Depends: python3-typer but it is not installable Recommends: python3-socksio but it is not installable E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. Does any Linux Mint 20.3 users has the same problem?

[@ordinarryalien]

Maybe you should install the legacy version: sudo apt update && sudo apt install nala-legacy "Functionally this is no different from the mainline package. It has every feature that nala has, the only difference is how it's built to maintain compatibility."

[@Vol_Del]

Hello TechHut, I have a question to you what is your main linux distro?

[@l5ismi]

Can I use this on linux mint cinammon? thanks.

[@jonspoonamore3721]

Only on LM20.x (Ubuntu 20.04). From the post pinned at the top, one of the Nala Developers chimed in. They have no plans to back-port Nala to older Debian based distros. So... LM19.x and older is a no-go. As well as Ubuntu 18.04 and older. Currently, Ubuntu 20.04 is supported. But... Only until Ubuntu 22.04 arrives next month. So that means... LM20.x and Ubuntu 20.04 will no-longer receive any updates after April. At least that's what I'm reading between the lines.

[@morsikpl]

I saw the title and I was about to write comment "I know apt sucks, that's why I use Fedora on desktop on RHEL-based systems on servers". But then I saw the thumbnail and I got confused and intruiged at the same time, as this "nala" looks very similar to yum/dnf :d

[@salcolonsc]

Excellent choice of OS.

[@thinkingbig2280]

Nala is so fast and looks great Ubuntu 22.04 is a superb distro too very stable.

[@mirkolantieri1341]

Good to hear! It seems the Nala developers are bringing apt pkg-man towards a more arch pacman btw scenario, which frankly (in my humble opinion), is the best manager nowadays (including yay, paru etc.) that you could find in Linux!

[@AshNonokPlays]

Can this be installed install on Slackware? I know Linux but I'm too lazy for slackware that's why I don't use it as a daily driver.

[@peppe540]

It is indeed a nice tool; I just installed the deb in LMDE 5 beta. Works like a charm, great tip!

[@typingcat]

Anyway, does this installer prevent that annoying situation of APT where it says something is broken and not allowing installing or removing anything? I don't use Linux that often, but I have experienced this multiple times and once I even had to reinstall Ubuntu for this problem.

[@volitanktech9303]

It doesn't really, but when it detects broken packages Nala will attempt to resolve them without making you run a separate command like apt does

[@mukyumukyun]

I didn't know if you'll read this or not, but I hope it'll be the case, could you please review and give us your thoughts about the new LMDE? it's a new Linux Mint that's not built from Ubuntu as base, but Debian instead, the community said it's better this than the Ubuntu base but... I can't really see the differences besides the installation process and there's technically almost no app is installed except some basic utilities

[@HyperspaceQ]

Installed Nala yesterday. Very Nice!

[@krisdoe]

Thanks for introducing us to Nala but I would not state that APT sucks. Nala is very good option and will definitely help new users but when it comes to automation - there is only one correct way.

[@obvious_giraffe8386]

Im upset cuz its not called 'please' and just go like please install...

[@teraskull]

alias please='nala'?

[@obvious_giraffe8386]

@@teraskull thank you

[@fabricio4794]

i Hope Nala can bring me an QT Apllication Manager,just like Snap Store,and....im on it

[@michaelplaczek9385]

Is this a front-end to apt, or just another package manager?

[@volitanktech9303]

It is a front end to apt in a similar way that aptitude is. It uses python-apt on the backend to interact with libapt-pkg.

[@Appalling68]

Hey man, I happen to love APT (for my Debian and Mint installs). Of course, the best package manager by far is Pacman, IMHO of course! ;-)

[@xrafter]

diffrence between aptitude and nala?

[@mat_max]

is there something like this but for dnf? that fetch and multiple connection feature by default would be a total blessing

[@barryjohnson2756]

arch linux pacman or fedora dnf is not colored when displaying new updates, but its much better than the APT package manager displaying information.

[@jaimesoad]

Weird I do see colors when using dnf, it shows new packages in green, and the packages being removed in red

[@warhawk_yt]

Pacman has the option to have colors but it’s not enabled by default. You have to go into the pacman.conf and add/uncomment it.

[@StarlordStavanger]

Soooo basically a pacman looking clone

[@madhavanrvijayan1678]

can you do a review on archtitus. I cant get it to work for me for some reason.

[@oscs4556]

You need fast internet and good arch mirrors in your country. It fails in Australia because our arch mirrors just plain sucks. The script grab mirrors base on your country instead on rating the fastest mirrors.

[@madhavanrvijayan1678]

@@oscs4556 oh im from india. I used archfi to install it. Thinking about it , it might be the mirrors.

[@typingcat]

"Their GitHub page".

[@aboutislam1775]

updating thought nala just crashed my zorin, I dont know what went wrong

[@Pieteros21]

@TechHut what do you think about DNF ?

[@hackingwithkencypher]

Is nala good for parrot os?

[@jonspoonamore3721]

Hey TechHut.... Why are my comments being auto-deleted? I'm not cussing, posting anything nasty or trying to stir any trouble. I'm just trying to express my concerns about the NALA installation on older distros.

[@kychemclass5850]

Hummm... after installing nala I wonder if this .basrc alias would work... alias apt='nala' to keep you grounded in default CLI commands.

[@jpberes]

Rollback using the nala history is awesome too ... sudo nala history undo xx or sudo nala history redo xx

[@harpskid]

Woah! Does ubuntu normally have that small of a footprint? 300mb is roughly what a fresh XP 64 bit install uses!!!!

[@RogueRen]

Apparently we're all just making Nala videos now! 😂

[@OMNS777]

Love this gonna update my Ubuntu instances

[@moonbasealphagrays4918]

Awesome! This is the way Apt should have worked all along! 🙂 I will be giving this a go on my systems... Thanks! 🖖

[@rumatadestora]

It's good but I only wish it would include some tool to auto commands bind to hotkeys

[@krtirtho]

Keep things in mind while choosing a video title You're completely disgracing apt but it's the most package manager in the history

[@funyfizik]

Hello, what about useful tools for work with block devices? Maybe you could make some video about it? Will be helpful

[@fred-youtube]

They should clear the screen at every step, it looks kinda messy at 3:10

[@Ryan-xq3kl]

Is this any slower than apt is?

[@cyberjohn44]

Great looking app. Going start using it as I like to see exactly what is being install on my computer.

[@adil1925]

How do you get the "+- Updating Package List -------------------+" to be one smooth line like yours?

[@volitanktech9303]

By change are you running Nala with doas? doas will force programs into ascii only mode unless you configure it to use your LANG= env variable.

[@plasma7287]

You need a font with ligatures, and then a terminal with ligature support

[@tvojejbabkydedko]

apt is so good just people are stupid and dont use bash aliases

[@PiniCheyni]

Whats your opinion about Aptitude ?

[@uwuuulk]

Error: nomacs has no installation candidate. okay nala not new apt if there no installation yes still no

[@HikaruAkitsuki]

This is amazing. But how can we sure that the apps are updated?

[@volitanktech9303]

On the backend it uses python-apt to interact with libapt-pkg. So during updates and upgrades it is doing the same thing apt is doing.

[@luiscarlosvieira3966]

Saying that APT sucks... it says a lot about the author... you get all of these FOSS software for free... you did nothing... You can say that Nala is awesome... but never that APT sucks... if it wasn't APT... Nala didn't exist... Be grateful that some good guys built that for free...

[@keyboard_g]

Neofetch installs “toilet fonts”? @4:17

[@Draggao]

This looks really good,i may use it in the future if i ever switch.

[@RichardiOS275]

cool, but can in parallel download

[@TechHut]

That's one of the primary features, forgot to mention this. :)

[@abanoubha]

Every software abstraction adds useful values with some tradeoffs, so make aure you are ok with the tradeoffs first.

[@TheHolaviste]

Fantastic! I will try on my SparkyLinux box!

[@averagemamil4523]

Good find Sir - many thanks 👍👏

[@gabrielevan148]

For presentation I love zypper the most. And as for speed, pacman

[@act.13.41]

I wish they would add parallel downloads for zypper. It has been requested for so long now.

[@gabrielevan148]

@@act.13.41 me too, man, me too...

[@act.13.41]

@Fashinqu A. Zypper defaults to support delta rpms.

[@act.13.41]

@Fashinqu A. Yes and I get that, but pacman installing with parallel downloads does seem much faster than zypper installing without. Once you get into updates, I agree, delta rpm rules.

[@gabrielevan148]

@Fashinqu A. I suppose so, but since it doesn't really matter nowadays with cheap storage, and how much ram and computing power delta packages needs to function, it's just not worth it imo. i just want to upgrade and be done with it. especially in today's world where internet connectivity is not that big of a problem unlike 2004

[@spaceguybob]

But love apt! Definitely try this out though. Wait, what about aptitude?

[@stefanml90]

Its looks like Pacstall or DUR when interacting with it.

[@cbbcbb6803]

Why don't Debian distributions either adopt Nala or at least make apt look better?

[@dinckelman]

I would never recommend anyone a debian based distribution *specifically* because of the disasterpiece that apt is. If this makes it even a little better, that's already a colossal improvement

[@celestialbeing4767]

Looks a lot like nushell. Interesting

[@youtube.user.1234]

Hey TechHut I’ve noticed my /tmp folder just stopped working with any applications. Like In Firefox, if I select “open with Firefox” when downloading a pdf, it should save it to /tmp and open it but now the download to /tmp just stops with no error. Also if I run “df -h”, /tmp isn’t there..

[@bthegawd8113]

Ok how is that relevant to this video?

[@youtube.user.1234]

@@bthegawd8113 Did I say it’s relevant? Anything wrong asking for some Linux help? Got a problem?

[@warhawk_yt]

Did you see if that directory got deleted somehow?

[@youtube.user.1234]

@@warhawk_yt I check and it’s still there. It has some files in it. But it doesn’t seem to be accessible by applications. I don’t know much about Linux but I think /tmp should be mounted and shown when I run “df -h”. I tried running “sudo mount /tmp” but it says it’s not there in “/etc/fstab”.. I checked my fstab and it actually isn’t there. So I paste a line that I found online that should mount /tmp but then when I boot up next time it says like systemd tmp.mount error or something. Luckily I went into recovery mode and edited out the line and it booted up again properly. And... turns out tmp.mount is a systemd thingy? I’m lost pls help

[@warhawk_yt]

@@youtube.user.1234 Yeah. I personally don’t know much about how the /tmp directory works but I know it does display as if it’s running on its own mount point with df but it doesn’t actually mount or at least not through fstab. It could be that the permissions for the /tmp directory got messed up because it does need to have specific permissions to function correctly.

[@ianoconnor1515]

you don't need this if you READ the apt output

[@acerlmt]

0s0m! Thank you for review!👍🏻

[@twistedkiller28]

I just installed Nala on pop os thanks for sharing this also Nala dev's thumbs up.

[@justahumanwithamask4089]

I've only used default manjaro no other distros yet and ngl it looks like pacman

[@shriteendhamasker9499]

So it's like dnf with more borders and colors

[@StrikerEureka85]

i've installed it and it works beautifully. recommended!

[@kelvinhbo]

APT just prints a bunch of URLs in the CLI every time you try to do anything, this is not useful at all, I've never understood why the most popular Linux distros are based on Debian, and I think this is why people new to Linux find the CLI scary. APT is the worst package manager by a long shot.

[@thechadbuddha]

tldr: ubuntu sucks, use arch