Nala is a New Package Manager for Debian and Ubuntu

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Nala is an apt frontend for Debian and Ubuntu and distros based on them. Why use Nala over apt? Nala has some really fancy output and offers faster installs via parallel downloading. In this video, I will install Nala with Pacstall. Then I will show some of the basic Nala commands.
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@gnarlin4964 Год назад

Nala also has one extremely important feature that apt doesn't: READABILITY

@s4u5g5 Год назад

what do you need to read? Package names? Please...

@Ghfvhvfg Год назад

Yep all other pakagemanagers have the feature allready

@hopelessdecoy 11 месяцев назад

I agree, better info displays are better. The people who want to use apt fine but to not understand why this is better/important should only use vi and no other text editor or design programs as they all just display info. Spreadsheets and slide shows are just bloated text docs right?

@phaedrus2633 Год назад

Your presentation has a great pace. Not too fast, not too wordy, just great. Thank you.

@bjorn7696 Год назад

I believe Nala also has a history and rollback system.

@mpsii Год назад

This is a very good feature. nala history and nala history undo allows you to see your nala sessions and rollback what you have decided are packages you did not want

@volitank2156 Год назад

Note that the history's undo and redo are only applicable for `install` and `remove`. Upgrades are not able to be rolled back atm as it is quite a tricky system to get correct. A big blocker is if the packages are no longer in the repos, it would not be trivial to downgrade them. Eventually I do plan on supporting this in some fashion in the future. Right now there is a ton to do and not really sitting as a priority. Additionally the history file's format needs a rework before more complicated operations can be performed.

@hopelessdecoy 11 месяцев назад

@@volitank2156good on you, thanks for your work so far

@bondjovi4595 Год назад

Back in my day, we resolved dependencies by hand.

@cbbcbb6803 Год назад

Thanks. Very useful. Nala also fixes much of the annoying terminal output clutter of apt. Everytime I use apt, I have to hope my eyeballs don't shutdown from trying to decipher the screen output.

@GiveAcademy Год назад

My favorite part of nana is the history and ability to roll back to a specific point.

@RD4888 4 месяца назад

Thanks very much, this helped me tremendously very clearly

@13thravenpurple94 Год назад

Great work 🥳🥳🥳 Thank you 💜💜💜

@Anonymous4045 Год назад

I love little stuff like this. It doesn't really do much (aside from parallel installs) but just looks really cool. I wanna use it, and I don't even use debian lol

@comradeishaan89604 Год назад

arent you on the python discord server?

@Anonymous4045 Год назад

@@comradeishaan89604 indeed

@burning_KFC Год назад

As always writing a comment to support the channel

@mysteriousboozebunny6534 Год назад

I only learned about Nala last week. Game changer on Debian based distros if you ask me.

@swapnilkanyal Год назад

As a Debian user and Pop os fan l must check out Nala for sure!

@philippeheyvaert3742 Год назад

This output is very nice. I'm using the dracula theme in gnome terminal... very very nice. Good job developers! Nice video DT, as always.

@attomic5319 Год назад

I don't use distros based on Debian, but it's always nice to see projects like these gaining some exposure.

@marshalllee2837 Год назад

I will try it out soon!

@iliyandettyilievi6572 Год назад

This is really nice for Debian :)

@JeffWF73 Год назад

I figured I would give it a try and see if it was possible to install pacstall and Nala on Debian Bullseye, I was amazed at how they both installed without errors and functions just perfect this far.

@ukyoize Год назад

Nala is straight up in Debian Testing's repo

@robinsourtoe9416 Год назад

I use nala now for several weeks an pop os. And it is the best thing since... perhaps neovim ;-)

@Nonas_a_Blerd 11 месяцев назад

To avoid having to manually add fetched mirrors, run: doas (or sudo) nala fetch --auto --fetches 8 --country US. This will automatically add 8 US-based mirrors to /etc/apt/sources.list.d/nala-sources.list Thanks for all you do

@NormanF62 Год назад

Its the front end to libapt under Ubuntu Rhino. The package manager is Pacstall. Rhino-init handles updates.

@SB-qm5wg Год назад

Looks cool.

@nightshade427 Год назад

Nala fetch will get the closest fastest mirror as well which is super helpful, Nala history is super cool for rolling back things easily, love it

@Henry-sv3wv Год назад

A proud lioness shouldn't fetch tings like a dog!

@pw1187 Год назад

Nala is a lot better than apt, It just a lot more than just bling It's easier to read, parallel downloading... In my opinion apt is the most archaic of all package manager

@rubell.alfaruk Год назад

nala is a front end for apt , looks may be better but under the hood its apt anyway, yes I give parallel download a plus point.

@pw1187 Год назад

@@rubell.alfaruk no expletive captain obvious... Did I say it was a totally different package manager?

@tonyf5869 Год назад

@@pw1187 if you look at the comments there's a lot of "WeLl, AcKsHuAlLy" going on over this. it's so stupid.

@Gurj101 Год назад

I heard about it in a different video on some other channel and it seems nice. Tbh almost makes me feel guilty to switch to manjaro just because of pacman lol. I hope in the future nala can replace apt in debian as default.

@s4u5g5 Год назад

No, it will not and thank god. Debian is good system because it is simple. Go away with your unneeded abstraction, most of sysadmins don't need it. KEEP IT SIMPLE!

@Nukelover Год назад

You can get parallel downloads from apt-fast, which also makes the output from apt slightly prettier. If installed, it is also used with Topgrade, which is pretty cool. You then get parallel downloads for apt while upgrading the packages installed by all your other package managers.

@andrewnorris5415 Год назад

nala does that and more

@Nukelover Год назад

@@andrewnorris5415 I could be missing something, but the Gitlab page doesn't mention flatpak, snap, cargo, etc. It just seems to handle apt (being a frontend for it, of course). Topgrade handles all those other packaging systems, in addition to handling parallel downloading on Debian/Ubuntu through apt-fast. I like the look of Nala though. I may try it.

@csehszlovakze Год назад

tbh pacstall looks a lot more interesting than yet another apt frontend (which is already a dpkg frontend)

@rmcellig Год назад

Is there a pref file to change colors etc....? Excellent video Derek!!!! 🙂

@exodous02 Год назад

Ohh, pretty. I like bling, and parallel downloads will speed things up. should have named it with 3 characters, nala is 3 where apt is 3.

@redrebel__ Год назад

Do a alias NA lol

@addgenious91 Год назад

Fish Shell + Tide Theme + Nala = Great User Experience

@John3_16_ Год назад

I love nala. Thanks to chris Titus a few weeks ago!

@YannMetalhead Год назад

Good video.

@yousefkhaled2 Год назад

is this a build-in dark mode in Gitlab or an extension?

@mattwilliams1844 Год назад

I think the most obvious feature request for nala would be to port the pacstrap code into nala

@adityawagh Год назад

What's pacstrap?

@thenextpoetician6328 Год назад

Your title is a bit overdone ...but the description, which contradicts it is correct.

@raddinox2707 Год назад

I'm running Debian Sid but I don't see a reason to install another package manager then the one for the distribution. KDE is managing my updates anyway, and it's not like I'm sitting and watching while it's updating.

@RockawayCCW Год назад

Sparky Linux has nala preinstalled. I didn't know what it was until I saw this video just now.

@Rbourk252 Год назад

I love the bling. Give me more

@OazadOMER Год назад

Hello and thanks ,you are doing great job, I have a question about Arch this is a first time in last 12 years they didnt release the iso in the first of month , to today its 5 August and still no new iso , I hope everything going well with them , I couldnt find any news about this

@aronwomack359 Год назад

All of y'all talking about the clutter of apt, use the -q and it will not show the output. And in your shell rc, alias nala='sudo nala' will save you time from having to type sudo nala or if you forget sudo !! I was using nala, but I ended up going back, because you can set your apt and associated package binaries to parallel and if you know a little, you can get a lot done.

@aonodensetsu Год назад

nala upgrade also runs update first, which apt should do as well

@seths1997 Год назад

6:00 I had a commodore flashback - load "file",8,1 😆

@wildanpratama6608 Год назад

You must try Ubuntu rolling Rhino, rolling version of Ubuntu and builtin with nala installed

@farzadmf Год назад

I like its "user interface"

@guilherme5094 Год назад

Nice👍

@accountid9681 Год назад

I might actually switch back to a debian based distro now. I always hated them, because the apt syntax made it a pain to diagnose update issues.

@JeffWF73 Год назад

I have a question on Pacstall. How safe are the packages? I mean since you say they can be packaged by anyone kind of makes me suspicious.

@xp911x8 Год назад

Hi, please help me. After I did nala fetch and choose the top 10 I received errors how to restore my old repository settings ?

@darkiceywolf2953 Год назад

It makes me wonder is this going to be the new default for Ubuntu. Like how red hat switched from yum to dnf.

@DREDKNOT2063 Год назад

can this replace or fix the pop os shop for updating my os an apps also how do i install on pop as my pop shop offen crashs before a finishing a update

@AFGonzaga Год назад

You should also check "nala history", it's like yum/dnf history

@timothyt.82 Год назад

this is pretty neat. My only problem is that it doesn't seam to recognize the repos I added myself, and I'm not sure I want to go through and try to re-add them. Maybe later, when I have some more free time on my hands.

@kpcraftster6580 10 месяцев назад

Being based on python rather than c++, is nala significantly slower than apt (the parallel downloading aside)?

@karolbronk5140 Год назад

Is there a nala version for raspberry pi and other arm based computers?

@OM-bs7of Год назад

The default package manager (apt) is better when it comes to smaller screens as tabular formats will become jumbled on smaller displays

@atemoc Год назад

80x24 ftw

@maksimmuruev423 Год назад

its also much better then your python upgrade screew up. :)

@volitank2156 Год назад

This is actually something I've come across the last time I did a system install. I'm going to eventually make a switch or something to allow a more apt like output.

@accountid9681 Год назад

or you could just decrease the font size

@OM-bs7of Год назад

@@accountid9681 you forgot the part about using a magnifying glass

@Noxer77 Год назад

Hey DT can you do a video about reflector on arch and how to set it up

@KimmeU Год назад

I love Nala, and have replaced it for Apt at my Linux Mint 20.3

@shresthkumarlal285 Год назад

Mint 21 is out now you can update:-)

@KimmeU Год назад

@@shresthkumarlal285 I'll rather wait and use the updater and not re-install and see if there are problems with the updater reported online before I update my finely tuned btrfs root partition with an modified /etc/fstab

@anon_y_mousse Год назад

I'm still waiting on a generic package manager that can work as a drop in replacement for all of them on any Linux system. Once someone writes that, I'll be on that like a fly on poop. If one ever crops up, it'll be interesting to see how they solve all the problems with interoperability.

@jabuxas Год назад

nix

@randomname2437 Год назад

@@jabuxas this.

@Perry.... Год назад

Then you're gonna ride Nix to hell and back. You're living under a rock friend

@anon_y_mousse Год назад

@@Perry.... I'd not heard of NixOS before now, and it looks weird and not at all like what I'm referring to. I'm talking about something that would integrate with the system like apt or pacman would. Maybe a new set of standards would need to be drafted to enable this, but for what I want, every OS could use it and install packages that way. Even if they still had to maintain separate repositories, they could still use a single program to do the installation. If you understand what I'm saying?

@SoundToxin Год назад

@@anon_y_mousse Nix can be used outside of NixOS on other distros, as can Guix.

@ayasolaris4971 Год назад

i'm a pleb so I only picked 4 mirrors and now i'm getting a bunch of missing stuff when running nala upgrade.. >.< how do I reset my /apt/sources.list?

@jamesmarsh9370 Год назад

how do you install this on LM 20.3 cinnamon?

@RD4888 4 месяца назад

Do you have any videos ref WARP terminal for Linux

@stp_79 Год назад

I wanna ask, is both Nala & Aptitude are frontend for Apt?

@volitank2156 Год назад

Yes. So technically nala, aptitude, apt, and apt-get are all front ends for libapt-pkg.

@jamesmarsh9370 Год назад

does this work on Linux Mint 20.3 Cinnamon?

@mahadevisutar1436 Год назад

Looks like the name "Nala" is inspired/adopted from Indian history.

@sephiroth7818 Год назад

Was the (1.. 16) the Enter default? Nala looks similar to DNF

@volitank2156 Год назад

Yes, the range is designed to be the default. Although it's broken right now so I need to fix that lol. I will probably additionally allow commas as a separator and also allow you to specify a range.

@mikewayland2576 Год назад

I just did a little experiment installing the chromium browser in Debian testing. Installing via apt took 7,4 sec, while nala took 9,25. Maybe if there are more packages that it will be faster. The best thing you can do to make apt faster is choosing a local mirror close to you. I use the netselect-apt package for this.

@nightshade427 Год назад

Nala has a mirror locator, will find closest fastest mirror, nala fetch

@Perry.... Год назад

Glad to see your one random test is the end all be all of data we need. Cool 🤷‍♀️

@valentinomelis8331 Год назад

Hey dt, can you do a video on signing a Linux distro to use It on a secure boot machine?

@GuyWhoChad Год назад

just in time, as i wiped out arch and installed linux mint :)

@rashie Год назад

👍👍

@GXShade Год назад

Kinda hope apt gets updated to function like nala or nala get integrated into apt

@Ghfvhvfg 11 месяцев назад

Maybe contribute to apt why not

@GXShade 11 месяцев назад

@@Ghfvhvfg I have no Idea how to program or develop.

@Ghfvhvfg 11 месяцев назад

@@GXShade maybe a skill to learn ;)

@GXShade 11 месяцев назад

@@Ghfvhvfg you're not wrong.

@-smokem Год назад

.. still working on the python dependencies that are required but not installable from repos.

@fabricio4794 Год назад

Hi DT ..can you do a Review about Big Linux Distro?yeah this is an Arch Based and maybe this will be the Next Linux Mint

@round1873 Год назад

that's not a package manager, it's a frontend for apt.

@round1873 Год назад

@Lan Zadura "Nala is a **New Package Manager** for Debian and Ubuntu" From the title of the video.

@NECOdes Год назад

@@round1873 10 second in video and he sys it's a front end for APT. Title is just for the algorithm.

@NECOdes Год назад

have patience my man

@davidrohan3104 Год назад

@@round1873 It's called playing the algorithm for more views.

@hiru92 Год назад

yes he said in begining of video

@dmaberlin 9 месяцев назад

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?

@JeffWF73 Год назад

Looks nice, I am a bit confused on the package counts being reported, As you mentioned, Nala reported, 5 to install and 270 upgrade, Then it showed 551 packages installed, Second time you used Nala to install Neovim it reported install 15 packages, Yet reported afterwards 31 packages were installed.

@volitank2156 Год назад

This is because it's not a package count, but more a count of operations. Unpacking, Setting Up, Etc.

@aronwomack359 Год назад

Because that's the compressed file count from the repository. Your pc downloads the files, then unpacks them, and then installs them in the corresponding location depending on what it is and does. You can compress files in another file, because there are so many different types of apps that they all have numerous dependencies that before long, it'll be just like windows.

@CesarPeron Год назад

Finally, a Debian helper like yay?

@Ghfvhvfg 11 месяцев назад

Maybe make apt feel like dnf…… better idea

@NoLoginIdea Год назад

Is it me or APT is way faster when you run update? The more mirror I add the longer it takes.

@emcclure933 6 месяцев назад

I"ve started installing nala first thing whenever I install a distro that uses apt.

@Godalming123 Год назад

Can you do a video on niceos?

@alt2458 Год назад

So you don't use the terminal shortcuts neither? Going back to the start of the line with the left key.

@alt2458 Год назад

9:39 Those are not dependencies DT What are you looking at when making the videos?

@max_im_um Год назад

You missed the most important feature that's lacking in apt: History, with the ability to roll back.

@burning_KFC Год назад

Nala is the best what happened to ubuntu for last 10 years imho

@aytviewer2421 Год назад

FYI: I think "nala" means "gift" in Swahili... Not sure if this was intended (aka gift = package...) in the name or not...

@volitank2156 Год назад

Nala was named after my cat, who was named after Lion King.

@aytviewer2421 Год назад

@@volitank2156 There you go then. Many names and phrases in the Lion King are Swahili. Heck, "simba" literally means "lion", "rafiki" is "friend", and there are many other Swahili words there. You serendipitously chose a name from the Lion King that literally translates to English as "gift" and a package could be received as a gift. I love it when the world aligns like that. Cheers.

@slavvoslava4694 Год назад

There are many package managers imo. Once you hit 3 or 4 , it starts getting annoying remembering the commands for each. It will never happen but a standardized package manager would be nice.

@Anonymous4045 Год назад

I mean for the most part, the main ones are pacman, apt, and rpm. Most of the other ones are built on top of those (eg yay and paru are essentially pacman + aur support, and nala here is apt but with cool colors and grouping)

@jared.mohammed Год назад

There's snaps and flatpaks which are universal package formats. And appimages, if you want to have a portable version of your application.

@JeffWF73 Год назад

That's the beauty of Linux. Everyone has a choice of what they want to use. If we were stuck on everything standardized, Then we would just be controlled and never have our own choices.

@SoundToxin Год назад

Nix or Guix can handle everything, including emacs packages and vim plugins.

@StevieRayLou 9 месяцев назад

Nala is not available in debian12. Submitted as an issue.

@adrianmares269 Год назад

Is there something similar to nala on arch? It would be interesting

@davidrohan3104 Год назад

Yay or Paru I guess but Pacman can be modified to do parallel downloads.

@whydoyouaskdude Год назад

Edit /etc/pacman.conf uncomment the line with parallel downloads and set a number. ParallelDownloads = 6 for example.

@bigmikeobama5314 Год назад

pacman is already good so no need

@davidrohan3104 Год назад

@@bigmikeobama5314 Well Yay or Paru also have the advantage of being an AUR helper.

@shrobbyy Год назад

Is it safe to use it on servers where you host multiplayer servers for games?

@shrobbyy Год назад

@Antonios Ichyros Thank you

@alenasenie6928 Год назад

What? Apt can't do parallel downloads? I was under the impression that should be a basic feature for any package manager this day.

@s4u5g5 Год назад

Aptitude has parallel downloads

@trayambakrai Год назад

Nala means gutter in my language, kinda funny.

@tonystorcke Год назад

It is interesting, but badly implemented. Try typing : Nala search opera , and you will see what I mean. In this case it will find all kinds of software for Ham radio operators. Even if I type Nala search "opera", I still get the same result. For Nala to work as implemented, your search term has to be completely unique, and not used in any descriptions of other [packages. This is terminal eye candy. Hopefully functionality will improve.

@StevieRayLou 9 месяцев назад

I'll wait until nala is available in debian12 repos.

@Shuliba Год назад

It's not good practice to sudo bash -c "$(curl anything before read the file, also.

@rendrarahmat7062 Год назад

like a dnf in debian based

@darobison42 Год назад

Can we get a version based on aptitude instead? Way less dependency issues than apt. At least, in my experience. And I switched to Debian while Vista was in Beta. It's my birthday, so I do NOT want to do that math...

@TheLazyJAK Год назад

dnf badly needs something similar

@LEBR27 Год назад

A manager to make think ubuntu debian users they know how to use the terminal xD

@ReadGospelOfJohn Год назад

IMHO Maybe on some server systems it's okay, but on Linux Mint with Cinnamon Nala is simply rubbish. It messed up my sources.list and if I use Mint update manager I get errors when trying to update package lists. Okay, let say I may not use graphical updates manager and use nala in terminal. Can I ? Not exactly. Mint update manager is updating not only packages from repositories, but also other files - like cinnamon desklets. Nala can't do that, so I need to use update manager anyway. Other thing is speed. Maybe in US on 10Gb network on super duper server nala is fast, but in UK on my 500Mb Virgin broadband and old laptop it is slower then graphical update manager. So thanks - no!

@tailsorange2872 Год назад

NALALALALALALALALALLALALALALA :LUL: JK - Hey DT - How about some Debian HURD how-to guides?

@praus Год назад

Been really enjoying using nala. While it is pretty, I’d say the appearance is more than just looks. For someone like myself, with dyslexia, it makes things a lot more readable. I suspect that had Linus had Nala instead of just apt, he might not have borked his Pop!_OS install. It would have been very clear that a ton of things were about to be removed.