volitank/nala

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1883 stars · 56 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

Nala is a command-line front-end for libapt-pkg, rewritten in Rust on top of rust-apt, that makes APT package operations easier to inspect before committing. It adds friendlier transaction summaries, history with undo/redo, parallel downloads with hash verification, and mirror selection.

Use cases

• install and remove packages with clearer transaction summaries
• search and inspect apt packages from the terminal
• undo or redo previous package transactions
• find and switch to the fastest apt mirrors
• download and verify .deb packages with a parallel downloader
• manage apt upgrades with exclusions for specific packages

When to choose

• you use Debian, Ubuntu, or another APT-based distro and want a friendlier apt interface
• you want transaction history with undo/redo for package changes
• you need faster parallel package downloads with hash verification
• you want machine-readable package info output for scripting

When to avoid

• you are not on an APT-based Linux distribution
• you need the long-stable Python version rather than the in-transition Rust rewrite
• you require a graphical package manager

Facets

cli-tool · maturity active

cli package-manager developer-tools developer-tools operating-systems cli rust apt package-management debian ubuntu libapt-pkg rust-apt terminal-ui transaction-history command-line linux

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