Tips on Wajig

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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.
```
 :::bash
 $ wajig
 wajig>
```

sudo apt install¶

From the documentation, sudo apt install is equivalent to apt-get install --no-install-recommends. sudo apt 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
```
 :::bash
 wajig search -v youtube
```

wajig download¶

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

Remove all GNOME desktop related packages

 :::bash
 sudo apt list | awk '{print $2}' | grep -i ^gnome | xargs sudo apt purge

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

To install backport packages, use

 :::bash
 sudo apt install libreoffice/wheezy-backports
 apt-get -t wheezy-backports libreoffice

It does not work if you use

 :::bash
 sudo apt 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.

:::bash
wajig download pkg_name

Issues¶

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