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<p>This is a bit of shameless self-promotion, but I think that anyone running an
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ArchLinux machine will probably appreciate this.</p>
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<p>As anyone who has run ArchLinux knows, there is a common phenomenon of
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upgrading your system and things breaking. If it's just some awkward behavior of
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some of the tools you can typically resolve it with ease, but there have been
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times for myself when, because I use Nvidia drivers, I cannot even get my
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graphical environment running and I have to revert the last upgrade. Most of the
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time, however, I've had to do this manually, since I did not know of any tool
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that does it, at least not the way I wanted, which is just an automatic undoing
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of the last pacman transaction.</p>
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<p>To remedy this problem I decided to write a hobby script that would do this
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work for me based on the pacman logs, using the local cache and even the
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ArchLinux Archive if the package cannot be found locally. I've even added
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support for my AUR helper of choice, yay.<sup><a href="#r1" >[1]</a></sup> This
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script is called pacundo and can be found in my personal
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repository<sup><a href="#r2" >[2]</a></sup> as well as in the AUR for an easier
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installation.<sup><a href="#r3" >[3]</a></sup></p>
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<p>As of right now (pacundo v1.1) the script only supports bare pacman and yay,
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but if you use a different AUR helper and want to contribute this functionality
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for your favorite AUR helper, feel free to send me a patch following the
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contributing guidelines.<sup><a href="#r4" >[4]</a></sup> As noted there, you
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can also find a mirror of my repository on GitHub<sup><a href="r5">[5]</a></sup>
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where I can also receive issues and pull requests (but please read the notes
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about pull requests that I wrote in the contributing section mentioned above).</p>
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<p>Hopefully this helps out a few people to fix their ArchLinux systems. I've
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also run it on Manjaro and it seems to work fine there as well, and my guess is
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it should work on any ArchLinux derivative distribution.</p>
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<p>God bless, and happy hacking!</p>
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<h3>References</h3>
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<ol class="refs" >
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<li id="r1" ><a href="https://github.com/Jguer/yay" target="_blank" >GitHub - Jguer/yay: Yet another Yogurt - An AUR Helper written in Go</a></li>
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<li id="r2" ><a href="https://code.ortegas.org/nortega/pacundo" target="_blank" >nortega/pacundo: A time machine to return your ArchLinux machine back to a working state. - pacundo - Ortega Code</a></li>
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<li id="r3" ><a href="https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/pacundo" target="_blank" >AUR - pacundo</a></li>
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<li id="r4" ><a href="https://code.ortegas.org/nortega/pacundo/src/branch/master/README.md#contributing" target="_blank" >pacundo/README.md Contributing - Ortega Code</a></li>
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</ol>
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