Remove old packages from the cache as well as unused sync databases to free up disk space. When pacman downloads packages, it saves them in a cache directory. In addition, databases are saved for every sync DB you download from, and are not deleted even if they are removed from the con...
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build, remove and manage Arch Linux packages. pacman uses libalpm (Arch Linux Package Management (ALPM) library) as a back-end to perform all the actions. Some other package manger utilities which are being used widely in Linux areyum,dnf,apt-get,dpkg,rpm,Zypper, pacman, urpmi...
clean removal: pacman has a list of every file in a package; this way, no files are unintentionally left behind when you decide to remove a package. Note: Packages often haveoptional dependencieswhich are packages that provide additional functionality to the application but not strictly required ...
3. Remove a Package To remove a package, use the following command to remove an installed package but keep the dependencies (files or libraries) it shares with other packages. sudo pacman -R package_name 4. Remove a Package with Unused Dependencies ...
Remove not installed packages and unused repositories from the cache (use the flags Sc to [c]lean all packages) $ sudo pacman -Sc Specify the package version that should be installed $ sudo pacman -S [package]=[version] SYNOPSIS
So, to remove a package, which is required by another package, without removing the dependent package, use the following command: # pacman -Rdd <package-name> As you might know, there will still be some orphaned (unused) packages in your Arch Linux after removing a package. These orphaned...
To remove all the cached packages that are not currently installed, and the unused sync database, execute: pacman -Sc To remove all files from the cache, use the clean switch twice, this is the most aggressive approach and will leave nothing in the cache folder: ...
Note:To get a list of packages installed as dependencies but no longer required by any installed package, see#Removing unused packages (orphans). List explicitly installed packages not in thebasemeta package: $ comm -23 <(pacman -Qqe | sort) <(expac -l '\n' '%E' base | sort) ...