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Mandalf

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Registered: 2007-07-02

Posts: 29

Clean up unused pakages

I have searched but i didn't find that function in pacman.

I searching for a function in pacman(or other program that usu pacman) to remove unsued packages.

Something like this:

root@Trillian:~# pacman --uninstall-unused
resolving dependencies...
looking for inter-conflicts...
Do you want to remove      Firefox        [Y/N]: N
Do you want to remove      Java           [Y/N]: Y
Do you want to remove      GIMP          [Y/N]: N

:: Removing...
Java [############################] 100%
root@Trillian:~#

I haven't made the application for this because i have not enough knowledge in programming.

dolby

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From: 1992

Registered: 2006-08-08

Posts: 1,581

Re: Clean up unused pakages

Can you define unused?

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abhidg

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From: City of Kol

Registered: 2006-07-01

Posts: 184

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Re: Clean up unused pakages

For a list of packages formerly installed as dependencies, but no longer in use by any currently installed packages (orphans):

pacman -Qdt

For a list of packages explicitly installed, but not required by any other package:

pacman -Qet

from: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pacman

Mandalf

Member

Registered: 2007-07-02

Posts: 29

Re: Clean up unused pakages

Can you define unused?

Say... I installed audacity and it installed some deps.

Then I removed audacity, but I can't remember the names of the deps.

So the old deps for audacity is unused. I don't need them.

abhidg

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From: City of Kol

Registered: 2006-07-01

Posts: 184

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Re: Clean up unused pakages

use pacman -Qdt
also if you want to remove a package and all its related dependencies
which are not required by any other package:

pacman -Rs packagename

Mr.Elendig

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From: The intertubes

Registered: 2004-11-07

Posts: 3,528

Re: Clean up unused pakages

Can you define unused?

Say... I installed audacity and it installed some deps.

Then I removed audacity, but I can't remember the names of the deps.

So the old deps for audacity is unused. I don't need them.

pacman -Rs audacity, optional -Rsc would have taken care of that.

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Mandalf

Member

Registered: 2007-07-02

Posts: 29

Re: Clean up unused pakages

Can you define unused?

Say... I installed audacity and it installed some deps.

Then I removed audacity, but I can't remember the names of the deps.

So the old deps for audacity is unused. I don't need them.

pacman -Rs audacity, optional -Rsc would have taken care of that.

That was a nice idea... I will remember to use it.

tomk

Forum Fellow

From: Ireland

Registered: 2004-07-21

Posts: 9,604

Re: Clean up unused pakages

The pacman man page has all the details you need, including the options mentioned here.

psswrt

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Registered: 2010-01-25

Posts: 1

Re: Clean up unused pakages

you can use a script in bash

for i in `pacman -Qdt | awk '{print $1}'`; do pacman -R $i ;  done

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Registered: 2006-11-26

Posts: 5,818

Re: Clean up unused pakages

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/For … Bumping.27

You're most welcome to help out, but old topics are better left alone...

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