[SOLVED] Pacman listing all packages as orphans

Papito2588 · 2023-12-13 00:10:08

Hi, i'm having issues with pacman and i can't find anything one the internet that seems to solve my problem.

It's simple: "pacman -Qtdq | pacman -Rns - " tries to uninstall 471 packages, including Xorg, archlinux-keyring, sudo and many others that are very important to Arch work properly.

What can i do? Thank you.

https://imgur.com/a/nDFbi7c

Last edited by Papito2588 (2023-12-13 16:36:32)

Scimmia · 2023-12-13 00:17:18

First off, post text, not pictures of text.

Now, is this an older installation, and maybe you missed https://archlinux.org/news/base-group-r … -required/ ? Based on that list, maybe https://archlinux.org/news/switch-to-th … ervention/ as well?

After you make sure you have that, take a look at the list. See what's there that you actually use. If you need more help, post the list.

Papito2588 · 2023-12-13 00:55:12

Just reinstalled base and base-devel, it didn't change anything.

Packages (471) a52dec-0.8.0-2 abseil-cpp-20230802.1-1 android-tools-34.0.4-3 android-udev-20231124-1 appstream-1.0.0-5 archlinux-keyring-20231207-1 aribb24-1.0.3-3 atkmm-2.28.3-1 autoconf-2.71-4 automake-1.16.5-2 binutils-2.41-3 bison-3.8.2-6 bluez-libs-5.70-2 boost-libs-1.83.0-2 cairo-perl-1.109-3 cairomm-1.14.5-1 cpio-2.14-1 cppdap-1.58.0-1 cups-1:2.4.7-2 cups-filters-2.0.0-1 dbus-python-1.3.2-2 debugedit-5.0-5 diffutils-3.10-1 docbook-xml-4.5-9 docbook-xsl-1.79.2-7 double-conversion-3.3.0-1 dracut-059-4 exo-4.18.0-1 faad2-2.11.1-1 fakeroot-1.32.2-1 ffmpeg4.4-4.4.4-3 flex-2.6.4-5 freeglut-3.4.0-1 fuse-common-3.16.2-1 fuse2-2.9.9-4 fuse3-3.16.2-1 gc-8.2.4-1 gcc-13.2.1-3 gd-2.3.3-7 geoclue-2.7.1-1 ghostscript-10.02.1-1 git-2.43.0-1 glew-2.2.0-6 glfw-x11-3.3.8-1 glib-perl-1.329.3-4 glib2-docs-2.78.3-1 glibmm-2.66.6-1 glibmm-2.68-2.78.0-1 glu-9.0.3-1 gobject-introspection-runtime-1.78.1-1 goocanvas-3.0.0-4 graphene-1.10.8-1 graphviz-9.0.0-1 groff-1.23.0-5 gsfonts-20200910-3 gtk-doc-1.33.2-3 gtk2-2.24.33-3 gtk4-1:4.12.4-1 gtkmm3-3.24.8-1 gts-0.7.6.121130-2 guile-3.0.9-1 gzip-1.13-2 hdparm-9.65-1 ijs-0.35-5 imagemagick-7.1.1.23-1 iproute2-6.6.0-2 iptables-1:1.8.10-1 iputils-20221126-2 iw-5.19-2 jansson-2.14-2 jasper-4.0.0-1 java-environment-common-3-5 java-runtime-common-3-5 jbig2dec-0.20-1 jdk11-openjdk-11.0.21.u9-3 jemalloc-1:5.3.0-3 jre11-openjdk-11.0.21.u9-3 jre11-openjdk-headless-11.0.21.u9-3 jsoncpp-1.9.5-2 less-1:643-1 libaio-0.3.113-2 libb2-0.98.1-2 libb64-1.2.1-4 libbpf-1.2.2-1 libbsd-0.11.7-1 libcamera-0.1.0-2 libcamera-ipa-0.1.0-2 libcdio-2.1.0-3 libcdio-paranoia-10.2+2.0.1-3 libconfig-1.7.3-2 libcpuid-0.6.4-2 libcupsfilters-2.0.0-1 libdca-0.0.7-2 libde265-1.0.14-1 libdispatch-5.5.0-1 libdvbpsi-1:1.3.3-3 libdvdnav-6.1.1-2 libdvdread-6.1.3-2 libebml-1.4.4-1 libev-4.33-2 libfontenc-1.1.7-1 libgirepository-1.78.1-1 libgphoto2-2.5.31-1 libgtop-2.41.2-1 libheif-1.17.5-2 libid3tag-0.15.1b-12 libidn-1.41-1 libieee1284-0.2.11-15 libimagequant-4.2.2-2 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xorg-bdftopcf-1.1.1-1 xorg-docs-1.7.2-2 xorg-font-util-1.4.1-1 xorg-fonts-100dpi-1.0.4-2 xorg-fonts-75dpi-1.0.4-1 xorg-iceauth-1.0.9-1 xorg-mkfontscale-1.2.2-1 xorg-server-21.1.9-1 xorg-server-devel-21.1.9-1 xorg-server-xephyr-21.1.9-1 xorg-server-xnest-21.1.9-1 xorg-server-xvfb-21.1.9-1 xorg-sessreg-1.1.3-1 xorg-smproxy-1.0.7-1 xorg-x11perf-1.6.2-1 xorg-xbacklight-1.2.3-3 xorg-xclipboard-1.1.4-1 xorg-xcmsdb-1.0.6-1 xorg-xcursorgen-1.0.8-1 xorg-xdriinfo-1.0.7-1 xorg-xev-1.2.5-1 xorg-xgamma-1.0.7-1 xorg-xhost-1.0.9-1 xorg-xinit-1.4.2-1 xorg-xinput-1.6.4-1 xorg-xkbevd-1.1.5-1 xorg-xkbutils-1.0.5-1 xorg-xkill-1.0.6-1 xorg-xlsatoms-1.1.4-1 xorg-xlsclients-1.1.5-1 xorg-xpr-1.1.0-1 xorg-xrefresh-1.0.7-1 xorg-xsetroot-1.1.3-1 xorg-xvinfo-1.1.5-1 xorg-xwayland-23.2.2-1 xorg-xwd-1.0.9-1 xorg-xwud-1.0.6-1 yay-12.2.0-1 zip-3.0-11 zsh-completions-0.35.0

Last edited by Papito2588 (2023-12-13 00:56:01)

Scimmia · 2023-12-13 01:58:30

Something is very wrong here. What does `pacman -Qi base base-devel` give you?

Edit: wait, they're both in the list, so you have them installed as dependencies? Have you been using --asdeps for everything? Use -D --asexplicit to get them right.

If you post your pacman log, we can figure out where things went wrong.

Last edited by Scimmia (2023-12-13 02:01:44)

Papito2588 · 2023-12-13 16:34:58

God, thank you. I totally forgot about pacman.log. I'm new to Arch, so there are some things that i'm still not used to.

Turns 2 months ago i've set --asdeps to a lot of things (maybe i was trying to fix this issue) and this happened. Now it's working perfecly.

Thank you.

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#1 2023-12-13 00:10:08

[SOLVED] Pacman listing all packages as orphans

#2 2023-12-13 00:17:18

Re: [SOLVED] Pacman listing all packages as orphans

#3 2023-12-13 00:55:12

Re: [SOLVED] Pacman listing all packages as orphans

#4 2023-12-13 01:58:30

Re: [SOLVED] Pacman listing all packages as orphans

#5 2023-12-13 16:34:58

Re: [SOLVED] Pacman listing all packages as orphans

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