Linux Mint: Change Package Manager
by des_a from LinuxQuestions.org on (#6MHG0)
Is it possible to change the package manager commands Linux Mint tools use to an attribrary value you choose, by specifiying the commands in a configuration? Linux Mint typically uses apt. However, there's nala you can install, and there is also my new tool, which for Linux Mint, is ready enough to use, softi. All 3 of these, make use of apt, but they are not apt. Is there a way, short of modifying the source code of mintupdate and mintinstall, to make all of these, including for flatpaks, use a package manager you specify? Before I fork it or something, it would be great if (if not), linux mint provided this feature, just because of at least the existance of nala. I don't always want to use the command line to manage pakages, but these tools do "extra things", and when you ignore them, those "extra things" do not get done.
This is the first place I'm going to ask this question. More details depending on this answer might better go on discord. But before I did something like forked it or something, I wanted to make sure about that. I'm not sure the license of these tools yet either. But this would be a great feature to have if it doesn't already exist.
This is the first place I'm going to ask this question. More details depending on this answer might better go on discord. But before I did something like forked it or something, I wanted to make sure about that. I'm not sure the license of these tools yet either. But this would be a great feature to have if it doesn't already exist.