Package sorting?

Mr Green · 2008-09-19 20:37:05

Hi,

I have got over 700 packages installed atm and want to have a sort out, not sure I want to reinstall Arch as its running as I want

Thing is I do load up stuff from time to time and now have lost track.....

Command line way would be better for me

'pacman -Qi | grep multimedia' does not do what I need

Thoughts?

MrG

[dare not ask if there is a synaptic for Arch!]

Pierre · 2008-09-19 20:43:52

Try this: pacman -Qsq multimedia
And if you feel lucky: sudo pacman -Rcsn `pacman -Qsq multimedia` After that your computer should be boring again. ;-)

Statix · 2008-09-19 20:46:13

I'm not sure what you're asking really.

If you want something like synaptic check out shaman.

Otherwise you'll have to use pacman -Q and its options.

usage: pacman {-Q --query} [options] [package]
options:
-c, --changelog view the changelog of a package
-d, --deps list all packages installed as dependencies
-e, --explicit list all packages explicitly installed
-g, --groups view all members of a package group
-i, --info view package information (-ii for backup files)
-l, --list list the contents of the queried package
-m, --foreign list installed packages not found in sync db(s)
-o, --owns <file> query the package that owns <file>
-p, --file <package> query a package file instead of the database
-s, --search <regex> search locally-installed packages for matching strings
-t, --unrequired list all packages not required by any package
-u, --upgrades list all packages that can be upgraded
-q, --quiet show less information for query and search
--config <path> set an alternate configuration file
--logfile <path> set an alternate log file
--noconfirm do not ask for any confirmation
--noprogressbar do not show a progress bar when downloading files
--noscriptlet do not execute the install scriptlet if one exists
-v, --verbose be verbose
-r, --root <path> set an alternate installation root
-b, --dbpath <path> set an alternate database location
--cachedir <dir> set an alternate package cache location

Last edited by Statix (2008-09-19 20:48:33)

Mr Green · 2008-09-20 05:18:15

used multimedia as an example :-)

just wanted a way to sort out packages, get rid of the ones I never use

will check out shaman

thanks

MrG

EDIT shaman looks like what I need....

Last edited by Mr Green (2008-09-20 05:19:49)

droog · 2008-09-20 07:55:33

I'm still doing the boring pacman -Q > ~/installed
then looked through it and pacman -Rsc to whatever i dont use.

edit: have to check out shaman

Last edited by droog (2008-09-20 07:57:29)

Vintendo · 2008-09-20 08:02:56

I do a pacman -Qe, those are the packages you explicitly installed.

byte · 2008-09-20 08:33:41

While pacman -Qtd usually shouldn't output much, those are the packages you most likely can remove right away.

Mr Green · 2008-09-20 14:09:13

would rather use command line for package management, maybe add some bash tools alias etc... for -Qtd

[ ~ ] > pacman -Qtd
agg 2.5-2
archlinux-menus 2.1-2
bigreqsproto 1.0.2-1
boost 1.34.1-2
codecs 20071007-1
confuse 2.6-1
csup 20060318-5
cyrus-sasl 2.1.22-9
dbus-qt3 0.62-3
docbook-xsl 1.73.2-1
exiv2 0.17.1-1
ggz-client-libs 0.0.14.1-1
gmime 2.2.21-1
gtkhtml 3.18.3-1
gtksourceview 1.8.5-2
hspell 1.0-2
hsqldb-java 1.8.0.10-1
icu 4.0-1
id3lib 3.8.3-10
imlib 1.9.15-4
inputproto 1.4.4-1
lesstif 0.95.0-2
libdvdcss 1.2.9-2
libevent 1.3e-1
libfs 1.0.1-1
libgdiplus 1.9-1
libidn 1.0-1
libipoddevice 0.5.3-1
libmal 0.44-1
libmtp 0.2.6.1-1
libnjb 2.2.5-4
libopensync 0.22-1
mono-addins 0.3.1-3
net-snmp 5.4.2-1
normalize 0.7.7-3
notification-daemon 0.3.7-3
nss-mdns 0.10-1
openal 0.0.8-4
opencdk 0.6.6-1
perl-io-socket-ssl 1.12-1
podsleuth 0.6.2-2
poppler-qt 0.8.6-1
portmap 6.0-2
pstoedit 3.45-2
python-elementtree 1.2.6_20050316-1
python-gammu 0.26-1
python-pyspi 0.6.1-2
pyvorbis 1.4-3
pyxdg 0.15-2
qca 2.0.1-2
qca-tls 1.0-5
qscintilla 2.2-1
rdesktop 1.6.0-2
sdl_sound 1.0.1-7
sharutils 4.6.3-1
sox 14.0.0-2
tpctl 4.15-1
unrar 3.8.2-1
wxgtk-2.6 2.6.4-2
xalan-c 1.10-2
xalan-java 2.7.1-2
xmlsec 1.2.11-2
[ ~ ] >

MrG

Last edited by Mr Green (2008-09-20 14:10:59)

Allan · 2008-09-20 14:36:03

I install all packages I am testing with "pacman -S --asdep <pkg>" so that I can remove them easily with "pacman -Rs $(pacman -Qqtd)". If I want to keep the packages, I reinstall it with "pacman -S --asexplicit <pkg>".

Mr Green · 2008-09-20 17:26:20

thats complicated way to go about things.... thats not the Arch way surely?

Thing I lose track of stuff I have installed, ie from pacman -U [or -A as it was!]

What I need is pacman --remove_all_packages_except_core :-) start over

MrG

Pierre · 2008-09-20 17:32:38

That's possible. Disable all repos in your pacman.conf except [core]. Run "pacman -Sy" and then "pacman -Rcn `pacman -Qqm`".

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