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#1 2010-05-24 22:38:52
- Japanlinux
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Pacman display certain packages
hello! I know about the pacman -Q command, which brings up all my installed packages. But I was wondering if there was a command which will only show the packages I installed and make the dependencies invisible or colored (some kind of differentiator). Thank you 
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#2 2010-05-24 22:40:39
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#3 2010-05-24 23:00:21
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Re: Pacman display certain packages
-e, --explicit
Restrict or filter output to packages explicitly installed.
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#4 2010-05-24 23:04:03
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Re: Pacman display certain packages
pacman -Q | cut -d " " -f 1
Not what he was looking for but "pacman -Qq" does the same thing...
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#5 2010-05-24 23:12:43
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Re: Pacman display certain packages
Runiq wrote:pacman -Q | cut -d " " -f 1Not what he was looking for but "pacman -Qq" does the same thing...
Huh, thanks. I should read manpages more thoroughly…
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#7 2010-05-25 06:42:53
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Re: Pacman display certain packages
Thanks guys. It seems Qet worked well. Out of interest what does the "t" do? the "e" was explicit as stated above, and "Q" was query.
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#8 2010-05-25 06:57:10
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Re: Pacman display certain packages
man pacman
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#9 2010-05-25 09:38:54
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Re: Pacman display certain packages
that made things more confusing for me...
Restrict or filter output to packages not required by any currently installed package.
Since using -Qet filtered out a lot of packages when compared to when I used -Qe, does that mean I have A LOT of useless packages?
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#10 2010-05-25 10:08:47
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Re: Pacman display certain packages
What is it with you guys, afraid of reading?
-e, --explicit
Restrict or filter output to packages explicitly installed. This option can be combined with -t to list top-level packages- those packages that were
explicitly installed but are not required by any other package.
Before you ask, yes there is a magic combination to display orphans - packages installed as dependencies but no longer needed by any program. And you can search inside manpages.
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#11 2010-05-25 20:53:14
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Re: Pacman display certain packages
Just look at those packages and determine if you don't need them..
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