saleem Hi, There is a packages list file offered by every distro. The packages are list in this pattern in that txt file when opened in geany e.g X-Arc-Collection 20200515-1 a52dec 0.7.4-11 aalib 1.4rc5-14 accountsservice 0.6.55-2 acl 2.2.53-3 adobe-source-code-pro-fonts 2.030ro+1.050it-6 adwaita-icon-theme 3.36.1-1 alsa-lib 1.2.3.1-1 alsa-plugins 1:1.2.2-2 alsa-topology-conf 1.2.3-1 alsa-ucm-conf 1.2.3-2 alsa-utils 1.2.3-2 aom 2.0.0-1 apr 1.7.0-3 apr-util 1.6.1-7 arch-install-scripts 23-2 archiso 44-2 How do I arrange all these files in one line on Geany or any other text editor without the packages versions numbers so I can install them at once with pacman ? E.G A one liner like this which I made manually but will become difficult to do manually if packages list has say 400 packages # pacman -S X-Arc-Collection a52dec aalib accountsservice acl adobe-source-code-pro-fonts adwaita-icon-theme alsa-lib alsa-plugins alsa-topology-conf alsa-ucm-conf alsa-utils aom apr apr-util arch-install-scripts archiso Can I get help about this whole thing please? Regards, archlinux-keyring 20200622-1
eric assuming the list in written at the $HOME/tmp/pkg_list file. % res= ;while read line;do res+=( ${line%%' '*} );done <<< $(<$HOME/tmp/pkg_list);sudo pacman -S ${res} Note on Arch X-Arc-Collection is an invalid package name.