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watafakamalaka

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Registered: 2021-07-25

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[SOLVED] How to get pacman minimal package set

Hello,

What I mean by that is:
I want to get a set containing the names of the packages that are needed to be installed in order to get the currently installed packages on a new system, and not just any set, but the one with the minimum length.

So you know how some package names are bundles that install a bunch of things. I don't want the name of the things, but the bundle.

Thanks

Last edited by watafakamalaka (2022-05-31 13:03:11)

Lone_Wolf

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Re: [SOLVED] How to get pacman minimal package set

Moist of us would follow https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Pacman … l_packages to ensure we'd get all packages.
It can be a long list though.

There are 2 things on archlinux that could be seen as 'bundles' : groups and meta packages .

$ pacman -Qg

will list all packages on your system that are member of  a group and the group name, I don't know of a way to list meta packages.

You may find https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Meta_p … kage_group helpfule/interesting.

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dogknowsnx

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Re: [SOLVED] How to get pacman minimal package set

pacman -Qg

will print a list of all installed packages belonging to a specific group

pacman -Qqe

will print a list of all explicitly installed packages
The "minimum" amount of packages of a certain group equals the amount you chose on installation...

Awebb

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Re: [SOLVED] How to get pacman minimal package set

For everything I'm going to tell you now, there is a switch explained in 'man pacman'.

There are two mechanisms: Dependencies and groups. Everything that is not installed as a dependency of another package is called "explicit". Then there is a concept called a meta package. Those packages are usually called somepkg-meta and packages that'll usually be installed explicitly will be a dependency of those -meta packages. Be careful with groups, a package can belong to a group, whether or not you've installed the entire group.

watafakamalaka

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Registered: 2021-07-25

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Re: [SOLVED] How to get pacman minimal package set

pacman -Qg

will print a list of all installed packages belonging to a specific group

pacman -Qqe

will print a list of all explicitly installed packages
The "minimum" amount of packages of a certain group equals the amount you chose on installation...

Thanks,

pacman -Qqe

worked well enough.

2ManyDogs

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Re: [SOLVED] How to get pacman minimal package set

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