Wajig

Wajig is an interface to many Debian administrative tasks. It consists of two interfaces: wajig is a command line interface and gjig is a Gnome interface.

Wajig commands are entered as the first argument to wajig. For example: "wajig install gnome". On the other hand, gjig has buttons for many of the commands, whilst also allowing commands to be typed directly. Gjig is also self documenting, providing extensive documentation as tooltips.

Written in Python, wajig uses traditional Debian administration and user tools including apt-get, dpkg, apt-cache, wget, and others. It is intended to unify and simplify common administrative tasks. It is available under the GPL.

Wajig Overview
Wajig is designed to run in such a way as to suit the system it is running on and the policies of the system administrators. It can be run as a normal user, but once a privileged command is required it will use either su and ask for the root user's password, or else it can use sudo and rely on the normal user's password. It can also be run directly as root without any extra setup.

Install Wajig
Wajig is available in the Debian distribution.

Selected Commands
to install / remove a package:

to put a package on hold:

to update the system:

to provide a description of a package:

to install recommended and suggested packages:

to list libraries not required by any installed package:

to convert a .rpm file to a Debian .deb file:

to install a .rpm package:

to configure the sources.list file:

to check reported bugs in package: