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#1 2011-11-10 21:09:50
- examon
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[SOLVED] pacman, remove last N installed packages
I installed some packages (~60). Is there any possibility to remove them in the way they have been installed?
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#2 2011-11-10 21:13:11
- karol
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Re: [SOLVED] pacman, remove last N installed packages
You can clean you cache or remove some particular packages the usual was with 'pacman -R' If all those packages were installed as a dependency of one or two packages, removing those two packages + their dependencies should do the trick.
You can use pacman's log to get the names of the packages.
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#3 2011-11-10 21:40:28
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Re: [SOLVED] pacman, remove last N installed packages
Thx karol, I know I can do it like that, but I wanted to know that if is there any pacman's function like "remove last N installed packages" or so
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#4 2011-11-10 21:48:17
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Re: [SOLVED] pacman, remove last N installed packages
If you're using [testing], you can install pacman-contrib 4.
If you only installed packages, try
paclog-pkglist /var/log/pacman.log | cut -d ' ' -f 1to get the list, cut it where needed and feed to pacman.
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#5 2011-11-10 21:49:59
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#6 2011-11-12 21:42:37
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Re: [SOLVED] pacman, remove last N installed packages
Please remember to mark as solved.
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#8 2011-11-12 21:57:39
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Re: [SOLVED] pacman, remove last N installed packages
paclog-pkglist has no regard for install order -- its output is in lexical order.
Oh yes, I should probably say cut (pacman's log) first, run paclog-pkglist later, like so:
paclog-pkglist <(tail -100 /var/log/pacman.log | grep installed)Edit: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 87#p626487 is 'pacman -Syu'-focused but may be of some help.
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