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Rolling Rhino Remix - Nala Documentation

We have recently integrated Nala into Rolling Rhino Remix.

Nala is a command line front end for libapt-pkg. It has a lot of the same functionality as apt, but formats the output to be more human readable. Nala also implements a history to see past transactions, and undo/redo them if requested. Nala downloads packages in parallel to speed up downloads. The more mirrors defined, the faster Nala can download.

Nala Commands:

• nala install [PKG] ... - Install the given package name(s) from the configured repositories.
• nala remove [PKG] ... - Remove the given package name(s) from the system.
• nala search [REGEX] - Search to see if a package exists that matches the regex.
• nala show [PKG] ... - Show the details of a package such as version and dependencies.
• nala history - Show a summary of your transaction history.
• nala fetch - To speed up downloads Nala will fetch mirrors that it determines are the fastest for you.

To upgrade your system, please use rhino-update instead of using Nala directly.

For more information on options and commands use nala --help.