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LeonCS

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Registered: 2025-01-13

Posts: 7

[Solved] archinstaller: section where you input additional packages

About 2 weeks ago. Choosing from a tens of thousands long list of available packages, I could not find a way to fast scroll the list. I took me ages of patient scrolling to get to the next package that I wanted.
A few weeks prior, the menu offered a box area, where you simply typed in the extra packages you wanted. It was better then.
Is there a way to fast scroll the list?

Last edited by LeonCS (2025-07-27 22:38:19)

correctmost

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Registered: 2024-01-20

Posts: 19

Re: [Solved] archinstaller: section where you input additional packages

Press the "/" key to enter search mode and then use the tab key to select individual packages.  Additional shortcuts are listed in the help menu (Ctrl+h).

cryptearth

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Registered: 2024-02-03

Posts: 1,730

Re: [Solved] archinstaller: section where you input additional packages

not using archinstall but the manual way and just give pacstrap what you want - or even do a minimal insall with just

pacstrap -K /mnt base

then arch-chroot and regular

pacman -S <package>

if you waste time by scanning through long lists to find something specific you doing it wrong