[SOLVED] Konsole limited scrollback/history

[RoyD]

Hi All
I did a full install and all is up and running quite quickly. I have done this a few times so in an earlier install i was has provided some commands that helps me to install all my apps back really easy. I thought I should update the list now that I am running Mageia 4 on KDE so I ran the code

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rpm -qa --qf '%{NAME}\n' | sort

but it only provides a list of programs starting from L and finishing at Z; it should show all from A to Z. It worked correctly in Mageia 2. I know there are programs on my PC from A to L. Does Konsole have a maximum display output as I have exported to a text file and it shows 21 pages?
Any ideas?

[jkerr82508]

I believe that the default is 1000 lines. To change this use Konsole - Settings - Edit Profile - Scrolling

Jim

[doktor5000]

it should show all from A to Z. It worked correctly in Mageia 2. I know there are programs on my PC from A to L. Does Konsole have a maximum display output as I have exported to a text file and it shows 21 pages?
Any ideas?

Yep, write the list directly into a file

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rpm -qa --qf '%{N}\n' | sort > packages.txt

[doktor5000]

In addition to the other suggestions, you could do it this way:

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rpm -qa --qf '%{NAME}\n' | sort | less

and read it in the pager.

[RoyD]

Thanks All
All suggestions work but I will use

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rpm -qa --qf '%{N}\n' | sort > packages.txt

as this makes it easy to create for the script.
Thanks once again for all your support Roy

[doktor5000]

Just keep in mind that you cannot feed all the packages in one go to urpmi e.g. via urpmi $(cat packages.txt)
but do it either in chunks of say 250 packages, or in a for or while loop.

[RoyD]

Actually the code I run is

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    urpmi.update -a
    while read line; do
       urpmi --auto $line
    done < YOUR-FILE

Ken-Bergen provided this code.
I have already run the command and I have had no problems this time or last time but if you suggest I run this in smaller chunks then I will.

[Ken-Bergen]

Roy: The key word in the Doktor's post was "or".

The while loop in the code you're using installs one package at a time along with any of it's dependencies, you can't do it in chunks smaller than that,

[RoyD]

Thanks for pointing that out Ken and a big thank you for providing this code it works a treat. So simple to run and it installs so much.

[Ken-Bergen]

I take no credit for the code, it was just something passed onto me many years ago.

The only downside I see is if you use

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urpme --auto-orphans

Say package "A" requires package "Q".
When the script goes to install package "Q" urpmi sees that it's already installed and it gets marked as manually installed and will not be included in the list of orphan packages.

[RoyD]

Since I do not worry about using auto orphans at all, ever; can it cause a problem?

[Ken-Bergen]

Since I do not worry about using auto orphans at all, ever; can it cause a problem?

In that case no.

[yankee495]

Welcome back RoyD,

I'm guessing you got it going. Cool, I hope it is running good for you this time. I may have you mixed up but I think you was the one with the square problem. If not, welcome to Mageia anyway!

And nice code Ken, the power of Linux amazes me. There is a zillion ways to do things.

[RoyD]

I was the one with square problem and decided it was easier just to do a full install. I am into backups across windows and linux machines at home (900gb). Having this little bit of code makes it so easy to have everything installed back to normal in a couple of hours. Needs some adjustments but nothing major.