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andre.ramaciotti

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Registered: 2007-04-06

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Files that belong to no package [solved]

I installed Archlinux some months ago and I had some problems because I used the installation CD with a previous version of pacman. With a little bit of hacking, I managed to boot it and everything is running fine.

Though everything works, some packages are installed, but don't show up in the pacman db. Is there a way to know which files in my root partition aren't owned by any package?

Last edited by andre.ramaciotti (2008-10-11 18:06:24)

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haxit

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Re: Files that belong to no package [solved]

If I remember correctly, try using; pacman -Qdte to list all packages that are orphans and were installed as deps. And to remove them, you can use: pacman -R `pacman -Qdte`
I think that is correct.

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AD28

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Registered: 2008-09-16

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Re: Files that belong to no package [solved]

I think this is what you're looking for: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=45939

andre.ramaciotti

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Registered: 2007-04-06

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Re: Files that belong to no package [solved]

That's not the problem. I have some files installed (e.g /bin/ping) but if I search for them with `pacman -Qo /bin/ping` it'll say that no package owns it. I'd like to know which files aren't owned by any package and them reinstall their packages.

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andre.ramaciotti

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Re: Files that belong to no package [solved]

@AD28
Thank you. That was exactly what I wanted.

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