interAPTive

About

interAPTive is an interactive commandline interface for APT (Advanced Packaging Tool on Debian-based Linux distributions).

Userinterface (UI)

Version 2 (interaptive.sh)

Version 1 (interaptive-classic.sh)

Requirements

• apt
• whiptail
• curl

Implemented commands

The following commands are supported

Maintenance commands

• apt update
• apt upgrade
• apt clean
• apt autoclean
• apt autoremove
• apt edit-sources

Info commands

• apt search
• apt show
• apt policy
• apt changelog
• apt depends
• apt list --installed
• apt list --upgradable
• apt list --all-versions

Install commands

• apt install
• apt install --reinstall

Uninstall commands

• apt remove
• apt purge

Installation

• Download latest version here
• Extract the archive
• Navigate to folder which contains this README.md

Install:

sudo make install

Uninstall:

sudo make uninstall

Launching

You can start interaptive by executing the interaptive command. An old version aka interaptive-classic can be started via the interaptive-classic command.

Updating

interAPTive comes with an selfupdate function which can be triggered from within the script.

Tested environments

interAPTive should work on all Debian-based Linux distributions. It was tested/used in the past on

• Ubuntu 14.04
• Ubuntu 15.10
• Ubuntu 16.04