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foxcub

Member

From: California

Registered: 2006-06-10

Posts: 36

Clean tree update

I was wondering if there was a way in pacman to reinstall every package I have on the system automatically? As in take the list of packages that I have installed, then assume that they are not actually installed, and install them from scratch.

The reason I want this is that I've run into the following problem. After a crash, I had a corrupted filesystem. During repair a few inodes had to be thrown out, and they must have had something important, because when I try to log into a KDE session, the splash screen freezes at "Initilalizing system services". Logging into XFCE, for example, works fine. I tried to reinstall kde packages, but that didn't fix it (I'm guessing it's something like sound that's screwed up, but I don't know for sure).

Any ideas are appreciated.
Thanks.

skottish

Forum Fellow

From: Here

Registered: 2006-06-16

Posts: 7,942

Re: Clean tree update

Hope this helps:

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php? … l+packages

foxcub

Member

From: California

Registered: 2006-06-10

Posts: 36

Re: Clean tree update

Great! I didn't manage to find it when I searched the forums. Thanks a lot for your help.

hightower

Member

Registered: 2006-04-02

Posts: 182

Re: Clean tree update

As you found it useful,perhaps you could wikify it, so that others can find it more quickly.

hightower