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pacreport — Generate a report of installed packages. More information: <https://github.com/andrewgregory/pacutil

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Problem

How to use the pacreport command: Generate a report of installed packages. More information: <https://github.com/andrewgregory/pacutils/blob/master/doc/pacreport.pod>.

Solution

pacreport — Generate a report of installed packages. More information: <https://github.com/andrewgregory/pacutils/blob/master/doc/pacreport.pod>.

Generate a summary of installed packages:

pacreport

List unowned files:

pacreport --unowned-files

List missing package files:

pacreport --missing-files

Search for unmerged backup files (i.e. .pacnew, .pacsave) in /etc:

pacreport --backups

Display packages in a specific group that are not currently installed:

pacreport --group {{group_name}}

Code Snippets

Generate a summary of installed packages

pacreport

List unowned files

pacreport --unowned-files

List missing package files

pacreport --missing-files

Search for unmerged backup files (i.e. `.pacnew`, `.pacsave`) in `/etc`

pacreport --backups

Display packages in a specific group that are not currently installed

pacreport --group {{group_name}}

Context

tldr-pages: linux/pacreport

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