[clue-tech] Speaking of Ubuntu, I could use some rpm equivalences

[Angelo Bertolli]

Hmmm, not that I know of.  But if you're looking for a CLI that's a 
little more user-friendly than apt-get, you can try wajig.  Here are 
some things it does:

* Use sudo in the background if you are a sudoer (wajig will work fine, 
no need to sudo wajig)
* Run wajig commands directly by using "wajig command-name"
* Provide its own CLI to run commands by running just "wajig"
* List wajig commands:  wajig listcommands

It acts as a wrapper for apt.

Here are some useful commands:
auto-clean     Remove superseded deb files from the download cache
 auto-download  Do an update followed by a download of all updated packages
 auto-install   Perform an install without asking questions 
(non-interactive)
 available      List versions of packages available for installation
clean          Remove all deb files from the download cache
daily-upgrade  Perform an update then a dist-upgrade
 dependents     List of packages which depend/recommend/suggest the package
 describe       One line description of packages (-v and -vv for more 
detail)
detail         Provide a detailed description of package (describe -vv)
find-file      Search for a file within installed packages
fix-install    Perform apt-get -f install (to fix broken dependencies)
 fix-missing    Perform apt-get --fix-missing upgrade
 force          Install packages and ignore file overwrites and depends
hold           Place listed packages on hold so they are not upgraded
install        Install (or upgrade) one or more packages or .deb files
list-installed List packages (with optional argument substring) installed
purge          Remove one or more packages and configuration files
purge-orphans  Purge orphaned libraries (not required by installed packages)
reconfigure    Reconfigure the named installed packages or run gkdebconf
 reinstall      Reinstall each of the named packages
remove         Remove one or more packages (see also purge)
search         Search for packages containing listed words
 search-apt     Find local Debian archives suitable for sources.list
 setup          Configure the sources.list file which locates Debian 
archives
snapshot       Generates list of package=version for all installed packages
update         Update the list of down-loadable packages
upgrade        Upgrade all of the installed packages or just those listed
whatis         A synonym for describe
 whichpkg       Find the package that supplies the given command or file


Jed S. Baer wrote:
> Is there a "rosetta stone" somewhere which gives translations into deb-speak for typical rpm commands?
>
> Usually, I use Synaptic, but on occassion it's useful to just do apt-get install, or whatever.
>
> jed
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