I was installing Evolution to my laptop recently (see article on Evolution, the best Outlook replacement). After firing up Evolution, I didn’t have the option for Exchange. I found that the Exchange connector is listed as a suggested package, so my command of “apt-get install evolution” only retrieved the basics.
I’ve seen this problem before: I want to install the full application with the features I need, but some of the packages are listed as suggested or recommended. If using the GUI package manager (Synaptic or Adept) it is easy enough to click them – but it is a pain to type them all in on a terminal.
That is where Wajig comes in:
First, install it:
sudo apt-get install wajig
Now, you can use it in place of apt-get to select recommended and/or suggested packages. For example, I want to install Evolution, so I have 4 options:
sudo apt-get install evolution
- This installs Evolution alone
sudo wajig installr evolution
- This installs Evolution with recommended packages (see the “r”)
sudo wajig installs evolution
- This installs Evolution with suggested packages (see the “s”)
sudo wajig installrs evolution
- This installs Evolution with recommended and suggested packages (see the “rs”)
Way cool…
