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Chiefcooker

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Registered: 2006-02-14

Posts: 29

back to base install?

hi, is there a possibility to delete everything installed except the base install? so that a bloated test sys shrinks back to a sys like fresh installed, without reinstall?
mfg chief

chpln

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From: Australia

Registered: 2009-09-17

Posts: 361

Re: back to base install?

The following should remove all packages except those in the base group.  100% untested; use with caution.

pacman -R $(echo "$(pacman -Sgq base)\n$(pacman -Qq)" | sort | uniq -u)

Last edited by chpln (2009-09-30 12:42:29)