Re: [arch-general] Replicating a package set on a new machine

To generate the list, I'd propose: pacman -Qeq > list.txt -e : only explicitly installed packages (deps get installed anyways...) -q : output better suited for scripts And on the other machine, just do the obvious: pacman -S - < list.txt (Note the single '-', specifiying to read the list of packages from stdin). - René Am 05.12.21 um 22:29 schrieb Paul M. Foster via arch-general:

Folks:

Assume I've installed a bunch of packages manually on machine A. Now I want to install those same packages-- not manually-- on machine B. I can have pacman tell me what packages are installed on machine A. Now, can I take the package list from machine A and, in an automated way, have pacman then install those packages on machine B? If so, how?

Paul