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choosegoose

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Registered: 2015-02-02

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[SOLVED] How to see packages that I installed myself?

For example, I myself installed these:

pacman -S vim
pacman -S xorg
pacman -S firefox

Is there a command that can show:

vim xorg firefox

?

Last edited by choosegoose (2015-02-10 21:41:53)

ewaller

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Re: [SOLVED] How to see packages that I installed myself?

Take a look at the file /var/log/pacman.log.  It has the dates, times and the specific commands used.  Of course, for installs, "I" == "root".  In other words, Joe user cannot install things, only root.

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SidK

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Re: [SOLVED] How to see packages that I installed myself?

Do you mean explicitly installed packages? Try

pacman -Qe

jasonwryan

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Re: [SOLVED] How to see packages that I installed myself?

expac -Q "%n: %w" | grep explicit

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alphaniner

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Re: [SOLVED] How to see packages that I installed myself?

For a pacman command, 'pacman -Qqe' would be closest AFAIK.

QUERY OPTIONS
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       -e, --explicit
           Restrict or filter output to explicitly installed packages. This option can be combined with -t to list explicitly installed packages that are not required by
           any other package.

Though for me that's still a big list.

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choosegoose

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Re: [SOLVED] How to see packages that I installed myself?

expac -Q "%n: %w" | grep explicit

pacman -Qqe

these seem to do what I'm looking for but I'm little confused about xorg package.

first, there seem to be a lot entries like this:

xf86-input-evdev
xf86-input-joystick
xf86-input-keyboard
xf86-input-mouse
xf86-input-synaptics
xf86-input-vmmouse
xf86-input-void
xf86-video-ark
xf86-video-ast
xf86-video-ati
xf86-video-cirrus
xf86-video-dummy
xf86-video-fbdev
...

Apparently I've installed all of them with:

pacman -S xorg

So why arent "xf86-video-*" considered dependencies of "xorg", so pacman -Qqe would only show me "xorg" rather than many "xf86-video-*"?

and also how does pacman even know what "xorg" package is?
I can see "xorg-server" in ABS/extra but I can't seem to find "xorg" anywhere.

Last edited by choosegoose (2015-02-10 21:03:03)

alphaniner

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Re: [SOLVED] How to see packages that I installed myself?

"xorg" is a package group. Search "group" in pacman(8) for more info.

Also FYI, you probably shouldn't have installed the entire "xorg" group.

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dice

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Re: [SOLVED] How to see packages that I installed myself?

"xorg" is a package group containing all the "xf86-video-*" packages and of course xorg-server and a lot more.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pa … age_groups

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choosegoose

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Re: [SOLVED] How to see packages that I installed myself?

Oh ok.

Thanks a lot.

karol

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Re: [SOLVED] How to see packages that I installed myself?

If you're going to install packages from the ABS or AUR, you can set yourself as the packager in makepkg.conf and then look for your packages with

expac "%n:%p" -Q | awk -F: '$2 == "choosegoose" {print $1}'