commandline or gui for package management?

Hello,
i was wondering which method people prefer to use for package management on linux?

for updates I normally prefer the commandline.

if I know the name of the package I prefer commandline.

searching for software and adding repos is easier with gui but i find the gui quite alot slower to load and refresh.
I am slowing doing all my package management from commandline.

 

I do this via tha command line only.

 

The command line is faster and if I know what to type, I'll use it, but I'm still far more comfortable using the gui.

 

I use GUI except when getting drivers or other programs that aren't in the repository.

 

I use the command line and then edit .bashrc to give each command a short alias.

I use Ubuntu, so to update the repos the command is:

Code:

sudo apt-get update

I made an alias, so that all I have to type is

Code:

update

Similarly if I want to search for packages, the normal command is:

Code:

sudo apt-get search <keyword>

I have an alias, so that all I have to type is

Code:

search <keyword>

You can make an alias for any command you choose. You just have to make sure the alias command does not conflict with other bash commands.

 

command like is fast and good but problem with command line is it so fast and good that it take all your bandwidth so i prefer gui .....slow but use full i make click on update and let do in background while i surf on net

where if i do same with command like it make browser work so slow

 

Same here. Since I'm a lazy guy, I created the following aliases in ~/.bash_aliases :

Code:

alias u="sudo apt-get update ; sudo apt-get upgrade"
alias U="sudo apt-get update ; sudo apt-get dist-upgrade"
alias i="sudo apt-get install"
alias r="sudo apt-get remove"
alias s="wajig search"
alias S="wajig show"
alias up="sudo apt-get dist-upgrade"
alias ar="sudo apt-get autoremove"

So after logon, the first thing I do is to press F12 to open Tilda and execute U. Simple and fast.

I mostly use Synaptic for this as I find it more comfortable.

 

There is no apt-get search, IMHO. The search option is only available for apt-cache and apt-file. Or in wajig as suggested above.