Aptivi<p><strong>Debian releases APT 3.0!</strong></p><p>New day, new week, new release. Debian has just released the third major version of the APT 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 <a href="https://tracker.debian.org/news/1635519/accepted-apt-300-source-into-unstable/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">official release tracker</a>, 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.</p><p>From now on, when you install packages, you’ll be presented with this changed layout:</p>Source: <a href="https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/04/apt-3-0-colours-columns-new-ui" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">OMG! Ubuntu!</a><p>Previously, the APT package manager looked like this:</p>Source: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APT_(software)" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Wikipedia</a><p>It not only brings visual improvements, but it also brings a new package solver, which is a back-tracking solver. It also doesn’t promote manually installed packages for removal, does make auto-remove more aggressive, and does bring the improved solver code to enhance package installation to be more optimal.</p><p>Learn more about this new solver <a href="https://blog.jak-linux.org/2024/05/14/solver3/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">here</a>.</p><p>Meanwhile, distributions that are Debian-based will take a bit of time to make it to the next version, including Ubuntu 25.04 which will reportedly switch to APT 3.0 from the older 2.x series.</p><p><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://officialaptivi.wordpress.com/tag/apt/" target="_blank">#APT</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://officialaptivi.wordpress.com/tag/apt-3-0/" target="_blank">#APT30</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://officialaptivi.wordpress.com/tag/debian/" target="_blank">#Debian</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://officialaptivi.wordpress.com/tag/news/" target="_blank">#news</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://officialaptivi.wordpress.com/tag/package/" target="_blank">#Package</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://officialaptivi.wordpress.com/tag/package-manager/" target="_blank">#PackageManager</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://officialaptivi.wordpress.com/tag/packages/" target="_blank">#Packages</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://officialaptivi.wordpress.com/tag/tech/" target="_blank">#Tech</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://officialaptivi.wordpress.com/tag/technology/" target="_blank">#Technology</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://officialaptivi.wordpress.com/tag/update/" target="_blank">#update</a></p>