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Another (fairly) recent improvement for apt, but on the UI side, is the apt command [1]. It "combines the most commonly used commands from apt-get and apt-cache
by abrowne 11y ago
Another (fairly) recent improvement for apt, but on the UI side, is the apt command [1]. It "combines the most commonly used commands from apt-get and apt-cache. The commands are the same as their apt-get/apt-cache counterparts but with slightly different configuration options." So no need to remember that it's apt-cache search, and it's a shorter command. (I know you can set aliases, but this works by default, so on a live USB or another user's machine.) Bash completion didn't work at first, at least on Ubuntu, but as of 15.10 it's working.
[1]: https://mvogt.wordpress.com/2014/04/04/apt-1-0/ https://mvogt.wordpress.com/2014/04/04/apt-1-0/
- fistfuck 11y agoUgh can't even count how many times this happens: Apt search somepackage sigh Apt-cache search somepackage
- mixmastamyk 11y agoThis does the same I believe, if you'd like to try something like this right now: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/apt-wrapper https://pypi.python.org/pypi/apt-wrapper It also runs sudo for you when needed. The wrapper part is only for the package name as it was already taken on pypi.
- dilap 11y agothis is good! i'm mostly homebrew on mac these days, but every once in a while i find myself on an apt-based linux system, and i've always blown away at how obscure and unintuitive apt is.
- Klasiaster 11y agoIt's good but does not provide tab-completion on bash yet.
- abrowne 11y agoIt does in Ubuntu starting with 15.10 (as I mentioned). I don't know about Debian.