So I was wondering, how do I search and isolate all the installed packages that I singlehandedly installed by pacman -S without showing the ones that were installed by calamares ?
I already tried pacman -Qm that lists AUR packages, which is working fine.
The pacman -Qe lists all explicitly installed packages, from the arch and/or eos repos, but at the same time it lists all the packages that were installed by calamares when I installed eos.
Is there a proper way, to list only the truly manually installed packages (and still residing installed on the system), and if yes, how?
I haven’t touched my install, all I see that there’s a logrotate timer, so I guess its gonna rotate itself automatically in time, afaik, it only gets archived, but never gets deleted (correct me if I’m wrong)
eos-packagelist I gotcha what you mean However “pacstrap”, “module”, “pulling”, “ISO” keywords - confused face I’m not that professional in linux, can you elaborate plase?
I haven’t found any pacstrap entry, isn’t that an arch thingie? (based on archwiki + I remember this one back when I tried installing arch, like a year ago, with great success but neve again xD )
Yes btw, until now I was doing this grep -i <packagename> /var/log/pacman.log but its too long to always do that + I always gotta find for its “pair” if I already removed it or is it still installed. What I’m trying to achieve, is to have a fresh knowledge of my installed softwares, that I can manage if I no longer need (and some of them doesn’t appear on the menu).
comm I heard this one before, but I got no idea what could I do with it. Can you elaborate this step aswell?
Thanks, yepp totally forgot to mention that I also do this occasionally: history | grep "pacman -S "
But then I told myself, there has to be a more professional way, but it seems only this DIY hacking methods are the only viable one then
This! Perfect - works like a dream, thank you @firefly , literally this was the solution I was looking for, very well detailed step by step guide, much appreciated.