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#1

Each night I run pacman -Qqen > pkglist.txt
When I rebuild from scratch, I use the following to pull down all the non-AUR packages.
The following line is the meat of the script as the remaining lines are either simple documentation or cosmetics like, this script is now complete - please reboot.

while read line; do pacman -S --needed --noconfirm $line; done < pkglist.txt

I also have a similar process for Debian. This cuts down on how long a rebuild takes and eliminates the forgotten packages that were installed.

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#2

A good tip @Chris

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#3

Mine isn’t a script. LOL, I back my dots up to a spare drive and Github/Notabug. Reinstall and go from there.

I use so few programs and utilities it’s quite quick to get back up and running almost the same as before.

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#4

for all apps and configs

for dotfiles

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#5

Top @stilia.johny

#6

it was DistroTube that introuced me to bare git repo for dotfiles… ever going back
and ansible is the best way to bring everything back to “normal”

in facts I have an alias for yay="echo Put it in ansible first" same for pacman

either could be run as \yay if you want to run the original system command.

I see many people suggesting pacman export-import but I could never deal with random configs; hence ansible

Also, just to trigger a conversation, you can use the same ansible ( mostly ) for any other Debian/RH/Arch base Distro :wink:

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#7

Ah, thx for the comeback @stilia.johny .

Might be useful & be of interests to other members.

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