Tips on Wajig

Posted on Mar 07, 2014 in OS

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apt and aptitude are preferred to wajig.

Wajig on Debian Wiki

You can type enter the CLI of wajig by typing wajig in terminal, so that you can use commands of wajig directly instead of typing wajig every time.
```
$ wajig
wajig>
```

wajig install

From the documentation, wajig install is equivalent to apt-get install --no-install-recommends. wajig install-r is equivalent to apt-get install.

wajig search

wajig search use regular expression by default. For example, wajig search g++ does not search for literal g++ but any package that contains g. To search for g++ related packages, you can use wajig search g\\+\\+ instead.
Let wajig also search description
```
wajig search -v youtube
```

wajig download

Download a package for install later. This is very helpful if the package is big.
```
wajig download pkg_name
```

Remove all GNOME desktop related packages

wajig list | awk '{print $2}' | grep -i ^gnome | xargs wajig purge

install a package of specific version using wajig
```
wajig search libssl/testing
```
check which repository a package comes from
```
wajig policy geary
```

To install backport packages, use

wajig install libreoffice/wheezy-backports
apt-get -t wheezy-backports libreoffice

It does not work if you use

wajig install libreoffice/stable-backports

Download Packages (for Installation Later)

If your network speed is a concern, you can download a package for installation later using the command below.

wajig download pkg_name

Issues

it seems to me that wajig purge package_name fails to remove packages sometimes even though it seems to succeed.