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Method to save your favorite Linux apps for reinstall (lemmy.today)

submitted 4 days ago by nothingcorporate@lemmy.today to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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20+ years ago, Lindows had a great app store that let you create an "aisle" of your favorite apps so if/when you'd reinstall your OS, instead of searching and installing all your apps one-by-one, you'd just go to your aisle, click "install all" and boom.

Is there anything that exists like that today?

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[–] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 8 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Just to add a bit more to this for the newbies who are using Arch (god help you).

pacman -Qe | awk '{print $1}' > packages.txt

Will write this list to a file, run without the '> packages.txt' if you just want to see the output and;

sudo pacman -S --needed - < packages.txt

Will install all of the needed (i.e. not installed) packages from that list.

[–] voytrekk@sopuli.xyz 6 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

If you use -Qeq, you should be able to skip the ask part of the command.

[–] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

If you use -Qeq, you should be able to skip the awk part of the command.

TIL

Looks like I gave up on RTFM and turned to awk too early.

[–] seralth@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

This is incredibly useful, sucks that I'll forget this is a thing by the time I need it.

[–] meekah@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Just remember that you can easily generate a list of all explicitly installed packages. You'll figure out how exactly when you end up needing it.

[–] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

This is how I do it. I'll see something and think 'hmm, interesting' and completely forget any of the details but I'll remember vaguely that something exists then I can search for it.

Language models are pretty good at solving the 'I think I remember something that does this specific thing but don't know where to look' kinds of problems (don't just blindly run LLM generated commands kids). Then once you have a lead, traditional searching is much easier.