Install a list of applications using pacman, sending a summary to the terminal, and detailed results to log files

Shell script build-pacman-packages

• reads a text file containing apt packages to install,
• summarizes the entire installation process, and
• generates detailed log files

Benefits

• lets you keep an ongoing alphabetical (highly recommended) list of useful pacman packages you can't live without
• installs each package, one at a time... that way if a particular application is missing, it doesn't hold up the rest
• handy error log lets you get right to the problem packages
• provides a simple way to rebuild your application base on a new build... just start it, watch some tv, check it later
• keeps logs of previous installation attempts

2019-06-25: Initial release

Screenshots of Log files