Install all EndeavourOS Packages

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Guys, I am converting a vanilla Arch distro to EndeavourOS. I have been able to install the keyring and mirros and add the EOS repo in pacman.conf. I am able to install individual packages from the EOS repo using Pacman by typing the package name in manually. When I run pacman -Sl I see all the endeavouros packages, so I think I am pretty well configured.

However, I would like to install all the EndeavourOS packages without typing them into pacman individually. Is there some way to do that quickly. I have had no luck so far after reading the man pages and googling extensively.

Thanks in Advance and Happy New Year.

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You’ll get the list of all EndeavourOS packages like this:

 pacman -Sl endeavouros | awk '{print $2}'

and to install them all you could do

 sudo pacman -S --needed $(pacman -Sl endeavouros | awk '{print $2}')

But the question is: why?
You can always easily install the ones you need.

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Well I need them all, since I am converting a vanilla Arch install to EOS. Typing them all in manually is time consuming.

Additionally, I am trying to learn more. I was trying to pipe the input of pacman -Sl endeavouros into pacman like you did but was completely unsuccessful!

Thanks for the help.

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Note that some of the packages are useless if you don’t have the hardware they are meant for, for example nvidia-installer-*.

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Yes, indeed, some are useless. In fact, I can’t get your command to run due to a conflict with the nvidia stuff, and I don’t need nvidia:

nvidia-installer and nvidia-installer-dkms are in conflict

Thanks for the help, I guess I will type the other packages in manually to pacman. Unless you can help by providing a command that installs everything but the nvidia packages… I’m sure you can but my regex mastery isn’t up to it.

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It’s a bad idea to install the entire repo. Most of the packages there you won’t need. It’s a short list, just go through it and install what you need (which will probably include endeavouros-keyring, endeavouros-mirrorlist, endeavouros-theming, grub2-theme-endeavouros, eos-hooks, inxi, and yay).

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Thank you, I appreciate the advice. In the end, I went through and installed everything but yay and downgrade (already previously installed manually from the AUR), the nvidia stuff, the openswap package and the reflector-auto, due to it being deprecated.

Really I was just doing this more as a learning experience. I already have a fully functioning EndeavourOS install, so I was trying to go through the whole process of adding custom repos to arch, etc, and chose EndeavourOS to be my add-on to vanilla Arch, because I was already familiar with it and because of the helpful community.

Thanks again for the help.

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