[arch-general] Re-installing whole system without touching configs.

Javier Vasquez j.e.vasquez.v at gmail.com
Sun Jan 17 13:41:45 EST 2010


On 1/17/10, Xavier Chantry <shiningxc at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 6:51 PM, Ray Rashif <schivmeister at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Often times it's the user configuration files that mess up a system,
>> so keep that in mind unless you're really confident it's all in the
>> packages themselves.
>>
>> And if you're thinking of reinstalling a la pacman -S $(comm -3
>> <(pacman -Qq) <(pacman -Qqm)) then remember to put it in a list first,
>> remove them (-Rscn) and then (re)install (-S). This is because some,
>> if not many packages, contain post-remove/install commands that may
>> affect the outcome.
>>
>
> I don't know if it's a good idea to remove pacman, libfetch,
> libarchive, glibc, bash, ...
>
> If you are worried some important files got corrupted, a simple
> reinstall with pacman -S should be fine.

Ok thanks...

The stpes are then to grab the list of packets as others have
suggested, and then re-install the list with pacman -S, that should be
the easier less risky approach.  I justdon't want to break the system
any more, and I want to prevent installing it from scratch...

Thanks,

-- 
Javier.


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