[SOLVED] How to Make a .txt file of All the Programs I Wish to Install

General system
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Ok

first of all, this is good article for anyone interested in generating package list

https://linuxhint.com/list_installed_packages_pacman_arch_linux/

In this example i’m using -Qqe option, but you can manually edit this list or make your own with only desired packages

Generating package list

pacman -Qqe >installed_packages.txt

Edit the list as you want using your prefered text editor

For AUR packages.

OBS: this actually list any package external from official, so endeavouros packages are also listed here.

pacman -Qqm >aur_packages.txt

#installing

There are multiples ways to accomplish this, i’ll give a couple examples

if you have one package by line you can:
1)
sudo pacman -S $(cat installed_packages.txt |xargs) --needed --noconfirm

Or even
2)
for x in $(cat installed_packages.txt); do sudo pacman -S $x --needed --noconfirm; done

3 )For AUR
yay -S $(cat aur_packages.txt |xargs) --needed --noconfirm

  • -needed will only install new packages, so you won’t waste time reinstalling the already installed
  • -noconfirm won’t prompt the confirmation step “Do you want to install?”. Recommended specially for the second method and with huge list of files
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