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grod

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Registered: 2008-11-11

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unistall all but the base system?

Rather than re-install, I'd like to wipe out everything I've installed save the base system and config files, and start over. How do I do this?

fukawi2

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Re: unistall all but the base system?

Comment out [extra] and [community] in your pacman.conf file

# Update our repository (core)
pacman -Sy
# Remove everything that is installed but not listed in our repo (core)
pacman -Rns `pacman -Qm`
# Forcefully (over-writing if required) reinstall everything from core
pacman -Syf `pacman -Ql | cut -d" " -f1 | sort | uniq`

I make no gurantees. Backup first; insert all the usual disclaimers.

EDIT: added some explainatory comments

Last edited by fukawi2 (2008-11-24 03:07:44)

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grod

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Re: unistall all but the base system?

20060318-5 not found, searching for group...
error: '20060318-5': not found in local db

What's that mean?

Allan

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Re: unistall all but the base system?

You probably want

pacman -Rns `pacman -Qqm`

and the last line could be

pacman -Syf `pacman -Qq

although, that is a waste of time unless you want to go back to the original configuration files which will be saved as .pacsave for you to move.

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grod

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Re: unistall all but the base system?

that removed csup and nothing else. I'm sure X, sudo, and the rest aren't part of the core. Please, how do I get rid of those?

Allan

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Re: unistall all but the base system?

Did you follow fukawi2's first instruction?

Comment out [extra] and [community] in your pacman.conf file

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grod

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Re: unistall all but the base system?

oops. Thanks!