Wajig?

[sammil]

I stumbled across this a while back, and am looking to install a new system from scratch. How does wajig compare to apt-get and aptitude? Any reliability problems? Compatibility?

It seems to give the security of apt-get with features of aptitude. The following was nice to see...

>One slick trick - suppose you want to install all the packages on one system to a new system? Do:

>wajig listinstalled > installed.txt

>move the installed.txt file to the new machine and:

>wajig fileinstall installed.txt

Is this too good to be true?

Links
http://www.togaware.com/linux/survivor/Wajig_Packages.shtml
http://xtronics.com/reference/rpm2apt-dpkg.htm

[mikekgr]

Dear sammil,

I use wajig very very often and I am 100% satisfied. No problem at all, it is front end for aptitude, dpkg, apt-get so 100% Debian compatible.

Regarding the "trick" to get in a file all installed packages as reference to install the same packages at a new machine, the same can be accomplished using the offician commands:
dpkg --get-selections
dpkg --set-selections

Best Regards,
Mike Kranidis

[sammil]

Mike,

Thank you. I'm going to use (sudo) wajig from now on. And thanks for the tip on dpkg.