6 Wajig: Linux System Management
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Wajig is a simplified and all-in-one-place system support tool for Debian and Ubuntu. It aims to cover every common (and some not so common) task you may need to perform in managing your computer.
Wajig commands are entered as the first argument to wajig. It starts out supporting the common apt and apt-get commands. So, for example, to install the package most:
Similarly, to update the index of package versions available for your computer:
And to then upgrade your computer to match the repository from your Linux distribution we can choose distupgrade:
A particularly useful feature of wajig is that it maintains a log of all changes, which you can listlog:
To get a summary of your system try sysinfo:
And there are plenty more commands:
Wajig is available in the Debian and Ubuntu repositories
The goal of this chapter is to not only introduce wajig but to also explore the underlying commands that are being used to effect the wajig command. You can then use these underlying commands directly if you prefer, or if you want to do more than what is packaged for wajig.
The source code is available from github where you can also report bugs, raise issues, suggest features, and most usefully, contribute pull requests.
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