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praka123

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From: Kerala,India

Registered: 2008-03-04

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reinstalling all installed packages using pacman

I feel my installation is corrupted .volcontrol muted on every boot,nautilus crashing,etc and more.
So,I though of reinstalling whole Gnome-2.22
I got below script somewhere in this forum or wiki maybe:but the script is erring out :?
please help !

 pacman -S $(pacman -Qq | grep -v "$(pacman -Qmq)")

and got the below error message

error: no targets specified (use -h for help)

Last edited by praka123 (2008-04-24 14:47:47)

praka123

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From: Kerala,India

Registered: 2008-03-04

Posts: 188

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Re: reinstalling all installed packages using pacman

I tried

pacman -S $(pacman -Qq)

It reinstalls all installed packages which are from repo.

still puzzled why "grep -v "$(pacman -Qmq)")"

shining

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Registered: 2006-05-10

Posts: 2,043

Re: reinstalling all installed packages using pacman

Run the command pacman -Qq and pacman -Qmq separately and try to find out why it breaks.
pacman -Q displays all packages, pacman -Qm displays the packages that are not in any repos, that is the packages you installed manually == foreign packages. You can't reinstall these foreign packages with pacman -S by definition.
So you have to filter them out of pacman -Q output.

pacman -S $(pacman -Qq) fails here, because I have 3 foreign packages, but  pacman -S $(pacman -Qq | grep -v "$(pacman -Qmq)") works.

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pacman roulette : pacman -S $(pacman -Slq | LANG=C sort -R | head -n $((RANDOM % 10)))