Generating a List of Installed Packages

brando56894 · 2008-10-09 01:14:18

Is there a way to generate a text file that contains all of the packages that are installed on my system? I'd like this so i can install all of the packages I have installed if I screw something up again.

rcoyner · 2008-10-09 01:46:23

pacman -Q > pacman.txt

brando56894 · 2008-10-13 06:33:56

thanks

ezzetabi · 2008-10-13 08:01:51

most probably you want
pacman -Qe
actually...

brando56894 · 2008-12-28 00:57:41

how can i feed this list of installed packages to pacman or is this not possible? if this isnt possible its a lot less useful for my needs :-/

Wintervenom · 2008-12-28 01:10:11

pacman -Qe | awk '{print $1}' > package_list.txt

...and...

 for x in $(cat package_list.txt); do pacman -S $x; done

...or...

pacman -S `cat package_list.txt`
#This will also work, but Pacman will exit if you have a package
#installed that is not in the repositories.

Last edited by Wintervenom (2008-12-28 01:13:28)

finferflu · 2008-12-28 01:30:03

I think this pertains more to the Newbie Corner. Moving.

Allan · 2008-12-28 01:50:41

Wintervenom wrote:

pacman -Qe | awk '{print $1}' > package_list.txt

Or:

pacman -Qqe > package_list.txt

Wintervenom · 2008-12-28 02:27:35

Well, I'll be...

Last edited by Wintervenom (2008-12-28 02:28:07)

Ghost1227 · 2008-12-29 19:11:23

I doubt you need it anymore, but I've been working on a project which has made it to beta and is up for grabs. If anyone is looking for something along these lines, Packup is a backup & recovery script for Pacman.

When I get around to it (i.e., after work) I'll make a post detailing it in the community projects section. If you're impatient, check out our website here.

Last edited by Ghost1227 (2008-12-29 19:11:37)

brando56894 · 2009-01-12 23:33:28

thats an awesome little program you have there, great job!

Ghost1227 · 2009-01-13 02:07:15

lol thanks! Packup actually has it's own thread here if you need it... (of course you could just use the tools provided at my website [bugtracker, forums, etc])

quickfished · 2009-01-13 03:20:53

This is what I did.

Generating the package list: pacman -Qqe > package.list
Installing from the package list: pacman -S $(cat package.list)
Is this what Pacup does?

The only problem I had is that it also lists the packages installed from the AUR with yaourt.

Ghost1227 · 2009-01-13 04:03:34

packup's a bit more complex than that... it can backup/restore official packages (core and extra), unofficial packages (community, aur, and other), or all packages, as well as backup and recovery of config files for pacman/yaourt and it's got a few other surprises coming...

quickfished · 2009-01-13 05:00:09

Ghost1227 wrote:

packup's a bit more complex than that... it can backup/restore official packages (core and extra), unofficial packages (community, aur, and other), or all packages, as well as backup and recovery of config files for pacman/yaourt and it's got a few other surprises coming...

Sounds very good. I will most certainly look into Packup then.

Ghost1227 · 2009-01-13 05:35:30

quickfished wrote:

Ghost1227 wrote:
packup's a bit more complex than that... it can backup/restore official packages (core and extra), unofficial packages (community, aur, and other), or all packages, as well as backup and recovery of config files for pacman/yaourt and it's got a few other surprises coming...
Sounds very good. I will most certainly look into Packup then.

Enjoy!

ndowens · 2010-12-03 00:49:55

Ghost1227 wrote:

quickfished wrote:
Ghost1227 wrote:
packup's a bit more complex than that... it can backup/restore official packages (core and extra), unofficial packages (community, aur, and other), or all packages, as well as backup and recovery of config files for pacman/yaourt and it's got a few other surprises coming...
Sounds very good. I will most certainly look into Packup then.
Enjoy!

Of course Ghost has to show off his talent Right Ghost?

Mr.Elendig · 2010-12-03 01:38:36

ndowens wrote:

Of course Ghost has to show off his talent Right Ghost?

Of course ndowens has to show off his necroposting talent Right ndowens?

DasFox · 2011-11-16 04:56:39

Isn't now for Arch pacman -Q > package_list.txt correct?

pacman -Qqe or pacman -Qe doesn't show everything...

THANKS

David Batson · 2011-11-16 13:04:11

I saw this neat little code posted somewhere for generating a list with dates. You can direct it to a text file if you wish.

pacman -Qi | sed '/^Name/{ s/  *//; s/^.* //; H;N;d}; /^URL/,/^Build Date/d; /^Install Reason/,/^Description/d; /^  */d;x; s/^.*: ... //; s/Jan/01/;  s/Feb/02/;  s/Mar/03/;  s/Apr/04/;  s/May/05/;  s/Jun/06/;  s/Jul/07/;  s/Aug/08/; s/Sep/09/; s/Oct/10/;  s/Nov/11/;  s/Dec/12/; / [1-9]\{1\} /{ s/[[:digit:]]\{1\}/0&/3 }; s/\(^[[:digit:]][[:digit:]]\) \([[:digit:]][[:digit:]]\) \(.*\) \(....\)/\4-\1-\2 \3/' | sed ' /^[[:alnum:]].*$/ N; s/\n/ /; s/\(^[[:graph:]]*\) \(.*$\)/\2 \1/; /^$/d'

Reki · 2011-11-16 15:04:37

I use

pacman -Qq > packages.txt

I find that using pacman -Qqe only list locally installed packages, and -Qq shows even those I download from the AUR. It's all personal preferences though.

karol · 2011-11-16 15:15:59

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pa … d_packages

fsckd · 2011-11-16 15:17:06

Thank you. Op can mark this as solved. Closing as necro-bump: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fo … Bumping.27

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