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Markus.N2

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From: Germany

Registered: 2013-08-22

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[SOLVED] pacman: how to find pkgs that are no more in the repositories

Hi,

I was also affected by the libxfont problem. After removing libxfont, I would like to clean up my system from other old/outdated/orphaned packages. But how can I identify them ?

I'm not asking about pacman/Tips and tricks -> Removing unused packages (orphans), as this will only check the local state of the packages. What I'm looking for is a list of packages that are installed but have been removed from the repositories.

Regards,
Markus

Last edited by Markus.N2 (2018-02-17 16:37:12)

Allan

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Re: [SOLVED] pacman: how to find pkgs that are no more in the repositories

pacman -Qm and ignore all the packages you installed from the AUR.

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Markus.N2

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From: Germany

Registered: 2013-08-22

Posts: 106

Re: [SOLVED] pacman: how to find pkgs that are no more in the repositories

I see ... the point I missed is that these packages become foreign.