Description
Apti is a frontend of aptitude (Debian's package manager) with improved presentation of packages.
It uses the same commands as aptitude, and allow you to use it without superuser rights (the sudo or root password is asked if needed).
The improved commands are: install
, remove
, purge
, safe-upgrade
, full-upgrade
and search
.
RSS feed of versions: https://gitorious.org/apti/apti/raw/stable:changelog.xml
Installation
With git
Dependencies: aptitude, ruby >= 1.9, ruby-i18n
# git clone -b stable git://gitorious.org/apti/apti.git /usr/local/
# ln -s /usr/local/apti/bin/apti /usr/local/bin/apti
With rubygems
# gem install apti
Configuration
Configuration file is in ~/.config/apti (by default).
- colors:
- available colors are: BLACK, RED, GREEN, ORANGE, BLUE, MAGENTA, CYAN and WHITE.
- available effects are: NORMAL, BOLD, UNDERLINE, BLINK and HIGHLIGHT.
- display_size: displaying size of packages or not (default true).
- spaces:
- columns: between columns in
install
,remove
,upgrade
. - unit: juste before size's unit.
- search: between package name and description.
- columns: between columns in
- no_confirm: if true, don't ask for the aptitude's confirmation.