Does Ubuntu need console alternative for software-properties-gtk / software-properties-kde?

[Norbert]

Does Ubuntu need console alternative for software-properties-gtk / software-properties-kde ?

• Yes
• No

How do you change repositories in your system?

• software-properties-gtk
• software-properties-kde
• Manually my editing /etc/apt/sources.list and/or /etc/apt/sources.list.d/*.list

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This discussion was inspired by my two questions on AskUbuntu:

• How to switch APT mirror from the commandline?
• How to enable or disable -updates, -security, -backports, -proposed repositories from commandline?

Currently Ubuntu has only GUI versions of Software & Updates applications.
But if Ubuntu wants to compete with enterprise grade Linux distributions you should consider to write console-based implementation of software-properties. To act as well as YaST do.
I can suggest to use NCurses backend on-top of Python aptsources module.

Reported 2 related bugs to launchpad:

• 1808674 - “software-properties-gtk should have --disable-component to disable specified component of the distro’s repositories”
• 1808676 - “Ubuntu needs console alternative for software-properties-gtk / software-properties-kde”

they have WishList importance.

[paulparker]

Important to encourage use of terminal, many simple tasks easy to learn the terminal way, even when done slowly, this builds understanding, confidence, and encourages to learn a little more.

Ongoing learning extends our usable life : -)