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Debian releases APT 3.1!

New day, new release. Debian has just released the first minor version of the APT 3.0 package manager that featured columnar display for listing packages when installing one of them. This improves user experience and makes things more readable than before. According to the official release tracker, this version of the package manager has been submitted to the unstable branch of Debian, which means that it’s only available on unstable versions of Debian for now.

Ubuntu will use this version of APT to bring several improvements to the package manager. The new solver, which was introduced in APT v3.0, is now used in Ubuntu. It introduces the “apt why” and the “apt why-not” commands, which worked similar to their Aptitude counterparts. Those commands give you a report as to why a particular package management decision was taken.

You can also include and exclude packages from a specific repository to limit them. For those who are using dselect, you can now use the HTTPS repositories to download and install packages interactively, all with just a terminal. Finally, APT V3.1 brings general improvements and bug fixes.

Learn more about this new solver here.

Meanwhile, distributions that are Debian-based will take a bit of time to make it to the next version, including Ubuntu 25.10 which will reportedly switch to APT 3.1 from the older 2.x series.

#APT#APT31#Debian

Package Manager for Markdown

I'm working on a project that is intended to encourage folk to make markdown text files which can be bundled together in different bundles of text files using a package manager.

Question for coders; Which package manager would you suggest I use?

Main criterias (in order) are:

1. Easy for someone with basic command line skills to edit the file and update version numbers and add additional packages.

2. All being equal, more commonly and easy to setup is preferred.

#Markdown #CommonMark #PackageManager #Programming #Dev
#NPM #RubyGems #Cargo #PickingAMastodonInstance
#Ruby #Python #Rust #Javascript #NodeJs #Lisp #CommonGuide

One thing I have from immutable (atomic) distros, and is how cumbersome is installing apps that require root permissions.

Supposedly you have to use Distrobox. Even that never worked for me. I always have to resort to `rpm-ostree` and then uninstall it so BootC can update the system. Every single time.

#Linux#Distrobox#OCI

DBIN | A distro-agnostic package manager for Linux 🛠️

Interesting times in uniting all Linux distributions even closer after the likes (not package managers) of Flatpaks and Snaps.

◉Dbin only accesses the configs and binaries which user requests
◉Every binary that dbin has in its repositories entirely self-contained
◉Dbin doesn't use a database - it can even be used without installing it
◉Dbin marks the programs that it installs/fetches using XATTR
◉Currently 3105 packages in the repositories (things like Steam and Lutris already in)

Users are encouraged to create a pull request, open an issue, starting a discussion or making suggestions!

👉 github.com/xplshn/dbin

GitHubGitHub - xplshn/dbin: 📦 Poor man's package manager. +3100 statically linked binaries in the repos! The easy to use, easy to get, suckless software distribution system📦 Poor man's package manager. +3100 statically linked binaries in the repos! The easy to use, easy to get, suckless software distribution system - xplshn/dbin
#dbin#Linux#packagemanager

If you want to finally learn Homebrew a bit better to properly manage packages on your machine, I wrote a post that might help!

didoesdigital.com/blog/homebre

I'm pleased that modern Homebrew has better defaults than it used to around auto-updating and cleanup. It also tracks less in its analytics.

For a bonus hot tip that's not included in the post: I like using `dust` to see which directories are filling up my lappy.

didoesdigital.comDiving Deeper Into Homebrew to Better Manage Packages on Your macOS Machine · DiDoesDigitalLearn the most useful Homebrew commands, keep packages up to date, look up Homebrew terminology, and discover some excellent Homebrew packages.