Solved list all installed pkg without using pkg info

userxbw

userxbw

I read in here on some post a command that is used that print to screen all installed package names without the info making it easy to create a list to be used to install everything onto another system, but now I cannot find it.

I have two installs . prior to this I'd install freebsd 13.1 then xfce and needed pkgs ie. xorg to run it then xfce's thunar when opened shows every partition including ext4 and I can click on them it they are mounted. this happened without installing any helper programs. it was just there. now when I use the same ios and install freebsd xcfe this no longer happens.

the strange thing is I've installed this more then one time and got the same results but not now. so I am trying to find that command to list both systems to compare them to see what is missing in the (now) second system that no longer does this.
 
This does not make sense; you need to install pkg (using the bootstrap one in base) to manage pkgs (including listing them).
 
userxbw said:
I read in here on some post a command that is used that print to screen all installed package names without the info making it easy to create a list to be used to install everything onto another system, but now I cannot find it.

I have two installs . prior to this I'd install freebsd 13.1 then xfce and needed pkgs ie. xorg to run it then xfce's thunar when opened shows every partition including ext4 and I can click on them it they are mounted. this happened without installing any helper programs. it was just there. now when I use the same ios and install freebsd xcfe this no longer happens.

the strange thing is I've installed this more then one time and got the same results but not now. so I am trying to find that command to list both systems to compare them to see what is missing in the (now) second system that no longer does this.
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I believe you're looking for pkg prime-list
 
pkg prime-origins? pkg prime-list?

Those are aliases by the way.
Code: 
prime-list           'query -e '%a = 0' '%n''
prime-origins        'query -e '%a = 0' '%o''
 
SirDice said:
Because they're aliases they're not mentioned in the pkg(8) man page, so they're easy to overlook. Have a look at the output of pkg alias to see more of them.
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yeah, i remember finding on the internet under freebsd man stuff but man pkg didn't show it so now i'll try to remember that , or make a script and maybe call it list-everyhing with that command in it.
 
Okay I figured it out, got ahead of myself .

I change pkg from quarterly to latest upgraded and now I have that ability in xfce4

now to find out of lightdm works out of the chute.
 
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