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venky80

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Registered: 2007-05-13

Posts: 1,002

Packages to install over the base packages

I have a KDE MOD arch installation and I have installed lots of packages, my question is how can I find a list of packages which I can install over the base install so that I can get all the programs installed which I have now....
for example i want to install the base arch install and then do something like
pacman -Sy xorg firefox truecrypt etc etc..
Please advice, I have tried various pacman commands but iam unable to get what i need.
Thanks,

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tigrmesh

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From: Florida, US

Registered: 2007-12-11

Posts: 794

Re: Packages to install over the base packages

I found this in my notes:

backup solution - restore my system with the same packages installed

pacman -Q | awk '{ print $1 }' > pkglist

to store the names of all pkgs installed

then if you would like to install them all again you will just need to type

pacman -S `cat pkglist`

venky80

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Registered: 2007-05-13

Posts: 1,002

Re: Packages to install over the base packages

well this will install packages which are pulled as dependencies...iam looking for the minimum packages which will pull the rest as dependencies

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ibendiben

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Registered: 2007-10-10

Posts: 519

Re: Packages to install over the base packages

For explicitly installed packages only, use:

pacman -Qe | cut -d' ' -f1 >pkglist

You have to bare in mind that foreigners (packages not in core/extra/community) will give you problems though...
To filter such packages out you could do:

pacman -Qm | cut -d' ' -f1 >foreigners
grep -vf foreigners pkglist >toinstall

Hope this helps!

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venky80

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Registered: 2007-05-13

Posts: 1,002

Re: Packages to install over the base packages

I will try it, thank you very much

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venky80

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Registered: 2007-05-13

Posts: 1,002

Re: Packages to install over the base packages

ok tried it and it worked now I have one more request out of the packages to be installed I want to split them according to core extra community ...is it possible
Thanks for all the help

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