{"id":333,"date":"2024-04-19T09:08:21","date_gmt":"2024-04-19T15:08:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tekweis.com\/?p=333"},"modified":"2024-04-19T09:25:36","modified_gmt":"2024-04-19T15:25:36","slug":"replacing-apt-with-nala","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tekweis.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/19\/replacing-apt-with-nala\/","title":{"rendered":"Replacing apt with Nala"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Nala is an improved front-end for the apt package manager in Ubuntu\/Debian Linux. It adds many features and a better visual representation to the activity of the command. A really good article about Nala<\/a> can be found here at ItsFoss<\/a><\/strong>. There are many more features and arguments to nala than the normal apt command offers.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Nala upgrade in use.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

I’ve decided to create an alias to stop me from using the apt command to using nala. To make sure the alias is persistent after every session or login, I needed to add the following alias commands to the bottom of my .bashrc<\/strong> file.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

# Added alias for nala to be used instead of apt.\nalias apt='\\nala'\nalias dapt='\\apt'\n# For aliases to work with sudo:\nalias sudo='sudo '\n<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n
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Now save and exit the shell. Enter back into your terminal and when I run sudo apt update, I get nala running instead.<\/p>\n\n\n
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Running sudo apt upgrade runs through nala now.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n
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Nala is an improved front-end for the apt package manager in Ubuntu\/Debian Linux. It adds many features and a better visual representation to the activity of the command. A really good article about Nala can be found here at ItsFoss. There are many more features and arguments to nala than the normal apt command offers.\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tekweis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tekweis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tekweis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tekweis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tekweis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=333"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tekweis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":339,"href":"https:\/\/tekweis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333\/revisions\/339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tekweis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tekweis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tekweis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}