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Hi
I have figured a way for a fast installtion of Arch. I backup the list of packages using the following command:
pacman -Qq > pkglist
The problem is I don't know how to tell pacman to install the packages in the listed file in the fresh installation. Any ideas?
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cat pkglist | xargs pacman -S --noconfirm
Last edited by lucke (2008-09-09 08:51:02)
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You are probably better to use
pacman -Qqe
to list only packages that were explicitly installed. That way the packages installed as dependencies, stay installed as dependencies. Then you can just
pacman -S $(cat pkglist)
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You could also take a look at metapax (linked in my sig). There's a "--system-snapshot" option that should do what you want, and also rebuild any pkgs that you have installed that are no longer available in your repos so that you can reinstall them as well.
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Thanks all. I'll give metapax a try. I added the useful information in the wiki entry.
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