[Solved] go back to ground 0

nixIT · 2011-12-01 21:01:04

Hello all,

I've been mucking with (installing/uninstalling) software on my system over the past week, uninstalling Gnome 3, installing Mate, etc.

After running for the week, my system seems to be running a bit more sluggish. Without reformatting and doing a complete install, is there a way to see what has been installed recently so I can make sure I uninstall everything that I've installed over the past week? basically get my system back to where it was last week?

--nixIT

EDIT. You guys rock, that's for the help/direction to look.

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lilsirecho · 2011-12-01 21:06:32

Perhaps read the everything log in /var....

karol · 2011-12-01 21:07:39

Check pacman's log.
'pacman -Qi foo' shows install date too.

nixIT · 2011-12-01 21:17:01

karol wrote:

Check pacman's log.
'pacman -Qi foo' shows install date too.

Thanks...with "foo" I will have to know what I installed. Is there a way to display everything I've installed over the past week?

--nixIT

/dev/zero · 2011-12-01 21:18:02

nixIT wrote:

After running for the week, my system seems to be running a bit more sluggish. Without reformatting and doing a complete install, is there a way to see what has been installed recently so I can make sure I uninstall everything that I've installed over the past week?

What do you mean, running more sluggishly? Why would this have anything to do with installed packages? They only take up hard disk space when not in use.

If your computer is running sluggishly, something is hogging either CPU or RAM. The solution will come from using the top command to determine which processes to disable.

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nixIT · 2011-12-01 21:21:08

nixIT wrote:

karol wrote:
Check pacman's log.
'pacman -Qi foo' shows install date too.
Thanks...with "foo" I will have to know what I installed. Is there a way to display everything I've installed over the past week?
--nixIT

got my answers from this link: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=479769

thanx, will solve this thread.

nixIT · 2011-12-01 21:22:45

/dev/zero wrote:

nixIT wrote:
After running for the week, my system seems to be running a bit more sluggish. Without reformatting and doing a complete install, is there a way to see what has been installed recently so I can make sure I uninstall everything that I've installed over the past week?
What do you mean, running more sluggishly? Why would this have anything to do with installed packages? They only take up hard disk space when not in use.
If your computer is running sluggishly, something is hogging either CPU or RAM. The solution will come from using the top command to determine which processes to disable.

sluggishly, Apps slowing down or seem to be non responsive. It could be Mate causing this, since when I had Gnome 3 in fallback mode, things flew. I decided to try Mate so I removed Gnome 3 and installed Mate, things work, and not bad, but since Mate is not completely converted yet, and there are some known issues, I am going to get my gnome 3 back to where it was, running very smoothly.

--nixIT

karol · 2011-12-01 21:24:02

expac "%l %n" -Q | grep 2011 | grep -E '(Nov 2|Nov 3)' | sort -k 3

Should print all the packages installed since 20th Nov 2011.

nixIT · 2011-12-01 21:24:47

karol wrote:

expac "%l %n" -Q | grep 2011 | grep -E '(Nov 2|Nov 3)' | sort -k 3
Should print all the packages installed since 20th Nov 2011.

Thanx Karol, you rock.

--nixIT

karol · 2011-12-01 21:30:48

expac "%l %n" -Q | grep 2011 | grep -E '(Nov 2|Nov 3)' | sort -k 3 | cut -d ' ' -f 6

prints just the package names.
Pacman treats updating a package the same way as installing a new one, so try not to remove e.g. mkinitcpio and linux completely but roll back to a previous version if you really have to.

/dev/zero · 2011-12-01 21:35:03

nixIT wrote:

sluggishly, Apps slowing down or seem to be non responsive. It could be Mate causing this, since when I had Gnome 3 in fallback mode, things flew. I decided to try Mate so I removed Gnome 3 and installed Mate, things work, and not bad, but since Mate is not completely converted yet, and there are some known issues, I am going to get my gnome 3 back to where it was, running very smoothly.
--nixIT

I think you missed my point ;-) It seems to me like you have an X-Y Problem.

Problem X: Your computer has started running sluggishly in the last week.
Problem Y: Remove or at least show all packages installed since one week ago.

Solving Y may or may not solve X, but it is certainly overkill compared to just solving X directly by disabling hoggish processes.

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nixIT · 2011-12-01 21:37:17

/dev/zero wrote:

nixIT wrote:
sluggishly, Apps slowing down or seem to be non responsive. It could be Mate causing this, since when I had Gnome 3 in fallback mode, things flew. I decided to try Mate so I removed Gnome 3 and installed Mate, things work, and not bad, but since Mate is not completely converted yet, and there are some known issues, I am going to get my gnome 3 back to where it was, running very smoothly.
--nixIT
I think you missed my point ;-) It seems to me like you have an X-Y Problem.
Problem X: Your computer has started running sluggishly in the last week.
Problem Y: Remove or at least show all packages installed since one week ago.
Solving Y may or may not solve X, but it is certainly overkill compared to just solving X directly by disabling hoggish processes.

I understand what you are saying, but the majoring of my pasts week experience has been messing with MATE, and that's when I started noticing the sluggishness in my system. so, removing MATE and going back to gnome 3 should (in theory) hopefully solve the sluggishness issues, since I did not have it before.

nixIT · 2011-12-02 14:17:59

if you were following this thread, I attempted to "removed new software I installed" and reinstall gnome. yeah, didn't go as planned. A full start to finish arch install is scheduled for this weekend. DOH.

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