Reinstalling All Packages

Hey all,
Let's say I messed up permissions and things for all my files and libraries. What's the best way to purge and reinstall every installed package so as to get more or less of a clean install? I basically want to reinstall without reinstalling. I can't uninstall packages manually and then reinstall them since that would eventually leave the system in an unusable state ex: when the glibc package gets uninstalled.
Last edited by solarwind (2008-09-28 23:32:18)

AD28 wrote:
Doesn't '-Qqm' only return manually compiled packages? I think this might be what you're looking for, but I'd wait for confirmation from someone more knowledgeable than I am..
pacman -S $(pacman -Qq)
Crap, I was playing around to stop the attempt at installing foreign packages and cut and pasted wrong....
It is probably best to go:
pacman -Qq > pkglist
for pkg in $(pacman -Qqm); do
sed -i "s#^${pkg}*##" pkglist
done;
pacman -S $(cat pkglist)

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How to reinstall all packages in the system?

I accidentaly remove whole /usr directory, so all installed apps are gone. I then installed the basic system from the install CD, all user and system configuration leave untouched. pacman even remember what packages were installed, when i try install some of the previously installed packages pacman says: this package is up to date, upgrade anyway Y/n? So all I must do to get my system up and running again is reinstall all previsously installed packages. Is there any way how to do this by a single command? Or some script? I don't want to reinstall all the packages one by one ...
Last edited by kotyz (2007-07-03 18:27:21)

Mefju wrote:
If you're pacman database is not removed, you could use something like this
#! /bin/sh
for pkg in $(pacman -Q | cut -d' ' -f1); do
pacman -S --noconfirm $pkg
done
pacman would error out if he's using any non-repo pkgs (like stuff from unsuported AUR)
working on a script now, will edit when i get it working.
#!/bin/bash
pacman -Q | awk '{ print $1 }' > installed.tmp
for i in $(pacman -Qm | awk '{ print $1 }'); do
cat installed.tmp | sed "s/^$i\$//;" > installed.tmp.1
mv installed.tmp.1 installed.tmp
done
pacman -S --noconfirm `cat installed.tmp`
rm installed.tmp
i think that'll do the trick... just make sure you backup your /etc before hand, it might overwrite stuff.
Last edited by kano (2007-07-03 19:47:07)

[Solved] Forcing pacman to reinstall all packages.

To avoid making myself look any stupider than necessary, I'll try and keep this short.
I ran out of space on my root partition in the middle of a pacman -Syu. This resulted in a lot of non-functioning packages. I have already successfully increased the size of the partition to about four times its old size using the Gparted LiveCD, and miraculously enough, Archlinux still boots, I still have wifi (and thus Internet access), and pacman still works. If pacman upgrades a package, it appears to start functioning again, which is nice. Now the problem.
Essentially, I would like to perform an upgrade on all packages on my system, including the ones that are up to date. This should fix them. Unfortunately, pacman -Syu (or -Syuf) only upgrades packages that appear out of date. I'm aware that I can accomplish this on a package by package basis simply using pacman -S, but I don't know of a way to obtain a list of all installed packages. How might I upgrade all the up to date ones as well?
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Last edited by Som_Gye (2008-02-18 05:00:06)

neotuli wrote:
pacman -S `pacman -Q| cut -d' ' -f1`
So to answer your question, 'pacman -Q' lists installed packages. By the sounds of it, you might want to browse through the pacman manpage (it's good stuff, really!), there are a lot of nifty options you probably don't know about yet.
Also I'm guessing the excuse you're looking for is something like... "i didn't get my tacos that day"
Please feel free to shoot me down in flames if I am wrong won't this mark everything as explicitly installed? Not usre if that would be a problem or not.

[SOLVED] some problems after reinstalling all packages

Hi all,
I had to reinstall everthing on the computer via
pacman -S $(pacman -Qnq)
then I move a few files back to their original place such as
/etc/shadow and /etc/passwd
now i'm having various problems
1) I can't run
systemctl
as a normal user anymore; I have to sudo into it. I get this error message:
Failed to get D-Bus connection: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken.
2) libreoffice wont run from my regular user account. I get this error message:
The application cannot be started. User installation could not be completed
I tried uninstalling then reinstalling libreoffice. Didn't fix it.
Any ideas?
Thanks
Alan
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permissions are as follows:
-rw------- 1 0 0 647 Oct 21 04:30 /etc/group
-rw------- 1 0 0 614 Jan 19 17:10 /etc/shadow
-rw------- 1 0 0 534 Oct 21 04:30 /etc/gshadow
-rw------- 1 0 0 799 Oct 21 04:30 /etc/passwd
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root:x:0:root
bin:x:1:root,bin,daemon
daemon:x:2:root,bin,daemon
sys:x:3:root,bin
adm:x:4:root,daemon
tty:x:5:
disk:x:6:root,xbmc
lp:x:7:daemon
mem:x:8:
kmem:x:9:
wheel:x:10:root
ftp:x:11:
mail:x:12:
uucp:x:14:
log:x:19:root
utmp:x:20:
locate:x:21:
rfkill:x:24:
smmsp:x:25:
http:x:33:
games:x:50:
lock:x:54:
uuidd:x:68:
dbus:x:81:
network:x:90:xbmc
video:x:91:xbmc
audio:x:92:beitme,xbmc
optical:x:93:xbmc
floppy:x:94:
storage:x:95:xbmc
scanner:x:96:
power:x:98:xbmc
nobody:x:99:
users:x:100:
systemd-journal:x:190:
ntp:x:87:
polkitd:x:102:
beitme:x:1000:
lightdm:x:620:
usbmux:x:140:
avahi:x:84:
transmission:x:169:
rtkit:x:133:
xbmc:x:1001:xbmc
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root:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash
bin:x:1:1:bin:/bin:/bin/false
daemon:x:2:2:daemon:/sbin:/bin/false
mail:x:8:12:mail:/var/spool/mail:/bin/false
ftp:x:14:11:ftp:/srv/ftp:/bin/false
http:x:33:33:http:/srv/http:/bin/false
uuidd:x:68:68:uuidd:/:/sbin/nologin
dbus:x:81:81:dbus:/:/sbin/nologin
nobody:x:99:99:nobody:/:/bin/false
ntp:x:87:87:Network Time Protocol:/var/lib/ntp:/bin/false
polkitd:x:102:102:Policy Kit Daemon:/:/bin/false
beitme:x:1000:1000::/home/beitme:/bin/bash
lightdm:x:620:620:Light Display Manager:/var/lib/lightdm:/sbin/nologin
usbmux:x:140:140:usbmux user:/:/sbin/nologin
avahi:x:84:84:avahi:/:/bin/false
transmission:x:169:169:Transmission BitTorrent Client:/var/lib/transmission:/bin/false
rtkit:x:133:133:RealtimeKit:/proc:/sbin/nologin
xbmc:x:1001:1001::/var/lib/xbmc:/bin/bash
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Mounting my computer partition in a livecd to reinstall pacman package

Hello,
I accidentally "sudo rm -rf /usr" (please don't ask why, really). So, I was told on IRC that I had to flash a .iso to a USB Drive. So I did, using another computer. I then rebooted the main computer where I sudo rm -rf'd /usr/ and booted this fresh .iso. So far, so good.
Now, I have to use a pacman command that reinstalls all packages (all the binaries and etcs that I lost) from a mounted directory of my main computer on the livecd.
I am logged in as root on the fresh livecd, but I have no idea of how to mount the main computer and then run pacman on it.
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/dev/sda2 (no idea)
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2ManyDogs wrote:
ephan wrote:Thank you, I managed to mount it. But how to run pacman from it?
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I'm pretty sure chroot will fail horribly if /usr is gone.
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Redownload and reinstall all installed packages

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configure: error: C preprocessor "/lib/cpp" fails sanity check
See `config.log' for more details.
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Last edited by macros78 (2007-09-09 12:19:21)

I think this should do it...
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How to force reinstall of all packages

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How can I force reinstall of all packages of my system without have physical access to the server?
Can i do this with YUM?
Please help,
Regards
Ricardo

Rather than reinstalling everything how about verifying installed packages to see what changed, which would allow you to isolate a problem - I think.
I have never done it but apparently there is yum-verify. Unfortunately I do not have OEL available right now to test it...
http://linux.die.net/man/1/yum-verify
To verify the binaries that are in a bin directory, use:
yum verify --verify-filenames='*bin/*'
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Reinstalling all installed packages using pacman

I feel my installation is corrupted .volcontrol muted on every boot,nautilus crashing,etc and more.
So,I though of reinstalling whole Gnome-2.22
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please help !
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Last edited by praka123 (2008-04-24 14:47:47)

Run the command pacman -Qq and pacman -Qmq separately and try to find out why it breaks.
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Yum upgrade all packages problem (SOLVED)

I keep getting this error when trying to do a YUM UPGRADE ALL?
Oracle Linux 6.4
Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit, security
Cleaning repos: epel ol6_UEK_latest ol6_latest virtualmin virtualmin-universal
Cleaning up Everything
Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit, security
Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: epel. Please verify its path and try again
Edited by: 981499 on Mar 20, 2013 7:23 PM

I tried deleting it but still no luck.
Reinstalled it and no go either.
With it elrepo deleted this is the error I get.
Upgrading all packages with command yum clean all ; yum -y update ..
Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit, security
Cleaning repos: ol6_UEK_latest ol6_latest virtualmin virtualmin-universal
Cleaning up Everything
Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit, security
*http://public-yum.oracle.com/repo/OracleLinux/OL6/UEK/latest/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 14] PYCURL ERROR 6 - "Couldn't resolve host 'public-yum.oracle.com'"*
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Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: ol6_UEK_latest. Please verify its path and try again
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Edited by: 981499 on Mar 20, 2013 6:43 PM

Pacman reinstall every package

Hi
I am getting a new system (intel atom) and I want to use my current arch install. However I have compiled probably about 75% of all the package on my system with some specific make flags for my processor.
So how can I go about reinstalling every package on my system with the one that arch provides?

I had to do this once and found this post http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=47608
I think i used the last command pacman -S $(pacman -Qq | grep -v "$(pacman -Qmq)")
edit, wasn't that topic it was an older one i remember using a command that allan posted that worked, not sure if its the same as that one.
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