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Review: Ubuntu 5.10 Breezy Badger (Linux.com)
Review: Ubuntu 5.10 Breezy Badger (Linux.com)
Posted Oct 11, 2005 21:45 UTC (Tue) by drag (subscriber, #31333)Parent article: Review: Ubuntu 5.10 Breezy Badger (Linux.com)
The apt 'front end' that I like personally is wajig. It's a python script that takes all the little dpkg-*, dpkg, apt-get and other Debian package commands and puts them into a single easy-to-use command setup.
Plus what makes it great is that if you have 'advanced' bash completetion enabled you can tab thru 'apt' commands then tab thru the aviable package names.
The only tricky part is when you do something like 'wajig install <tab><tab>' then you have to wait a bit as the system builds a list of the 22,000+ package names aviable. But they seem to have improved that with newer versions.
It's nice because I can never remember all the switches and the various command names and what they are for. The autocompletion stuff rocks. Plus it's well thought out.. for example if your a regular user then it'll prompt you for your password via sudo command.
Found out about it thru the "debian desktop survival guide" http://www.togaware.com/linux/survivor/
Never liked synaptic so much personally. The nice thing is that the GUI is friendly to new users.
I don't know if it's aviable on ubuntu.. been a Debian user for a while now. I would expect it to be.
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Review: Ubuntu 5.10 Breezy Badger (Linux.com)
Posted Oct 12, 2005 0:04 UTC (Wed) by darthmdh (guest, #8032) [Link]
wajig not only exploits the entire apt functionality (ie, not just apt-get but apt-cache etc) but also exploits related external applications also such as deborphan, invoke-rc.d, and others. Yes, its available in Ubuntu.
It's nice to be able to use the one tool to search for packages, install, uninstall, place on hold, get sources, check changelogs, cleanup old junk, stop and start services, ... and its a tiny package too.
Back on topic though, I'm interested in people's experiences with Breezy on amd64. I have a Warty install on a dual-core amd64 and I really can't use it (don't laugh ;) because there appears to be absolutely zero driver support for my MSI board (ATI chipset) in the kernel it comes with.
Review: Ubuntu 5.10 Breezy Badger (Linux.com)
Posted Oct 12, 2005 3:30 UTC (Wed) by busterb (subscriber, #560) [Link]
I tried it on an MSI board with a VIA chipset, and a Gigabyte with an nForce3 chipset. The MSI/VIA really didn't work well; driver support, instability. The nForce3-based board worked perfectly and completely. Windows x64 also installed without requiring any problems on the nForce board, but I had to find the correct 64-bit SATA driver and put it on a floppy for some reason to install on the MSI board.
Review: Ubuntu 5.10 Breezy Badger (Linux.com)
Posted Oct 12, 2005 17:13 UTC (Wed) by jwb (subscriber, #15467) [Link]
Hoary and Breezy both work great on my Shuttle machines, one having nForce3 and one having nForce4 chipset. Both use AGP video cards.
Review: Ubuntu 5.10 Breezy Badger (Linux.com)
Posted Oct 12, 2005 12:24 UTC (Wed) by richo123 (guest, #24309) [Link]
wajig 2.0.29 is in Ubuntu Breezy universe repository.