wajig A Must Have Utility

I was looking through some websites for some info on cleaning up my Gutsy installation.
Read a few different pages about a program called deborphan. Even though Ubuntu's Synaptic Package Manager and apt-get remove do a good job of removing a software package and any dependencies that were required there are times that some files are left behind.
Thus you acquire orphan files.

Now deborphan does a great job of removing these left over files and I did install it.
But then I came across a utility that not only removes orphan files but does plenty more.
It's called wajig and it is a great all in one utility.

Here is a screenshot of what it looks like;






















You can install it by doing a search for wajig in your Synaptic Package Manager.
I usually use the terminal with the apt-get install command but with this utility it may cause a problem installing it that way.

There are some dependencies that are required to use all the options.
The following list is not complete as many are already installed by default.
But if you want to have all the options make sure you either have or install the following packages;

python
python-apt
dselect
fping
reportbug
apt-move
dpkg-repack
alien
gkdebconf
python-gtk2
python-glade2
python-gnome2
locales
gnome-tasksel
deborphan
vrms
apt-show-versions

Once you install everything you can start the utility by opening a terminal and typing in gjig
That's g-j-i-g

gjig is the included GUI for wajig so you don't have to run all the commands via the terminal.

If you want to see the complete list of commands for wajig type the following in the terminal;
wajig list-commands

For more info on wajig you can check out their web page here;
Wajig Web Page

So what started out as a mundane search for a utility to clean up some files turned into a gold mine of an administrator quality utility program.

Hope you enjoy this utility as much as I do and it helps keep your system clean and running at peak performance.

TaZMAn