[SOLVED] Issue when installing many packages

vvd · 2013-03-27 19:30:21

I recently installed arch linux and I remember being a bit worried about something: you know that packages that are being installed might remind you about things that you manually have to do in order to archeive this or that, like for example wireshark will tell you that you should put yourself into the wireshark group to be able to dump as a standard user.
Now, I've seen a lot of those messages for my initial setup that I could not read. For example, when I did pacman -S gnome on the base system, it pulled in a lot of deps and at the same time gave me many of those hints - which basically just flew by (I wasn't smart enough to log a copy of the output of that command).
Does someone have a script that takes my local pacman database, and throws only the hints for all installed packages back to me? Thx

Last edited by vvd (2013-03-27 19:54:13)

knopwob · 2013-03-27 19:41:41

vvd wrote:

(I wasn't smart enough to log a copy of the output of that command).

You should be able to find the same output in /var/log/pacman.log

vvd wrote:

Does someone have a script that takes my local pacman database, and throws only the hints for all installed packages back to me? Thx

I think that's not possible, since those messages aren't stored in any package metadata directly. Those messages come from scripts that are run pre/post install/upgrade/remove of a package.

vvd · 2013-03-27 19:56:15

Thank you knopwob! Those messages can indeed be found in the log! Now would you excuse me, I got something to read.

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#1 2013-03-27 19:30:21

[SOLVED] Issue when installing many packages

#2 2013-03-27 19:41:41

Re: [SOLVED] Issue when installing many packages

#3 2013-03-27 19:56:15

Re: [SOLVED] Issue when installing many packages

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