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Sly

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Registered: 2010-02-28

Posts: 40

Packages and Dependencies

Hey. So before I really know all of the pacman command variations I was installing apps and removing them without realised I'd need to remove all of their dependencies too. So now I have these dependencies that none of my applications require and they're unnecessarily taking up space.

So my question is, is there a way (command?) to remove all dependencies that are not used by any applications, without actually knowing which dependencies are not being used?

Cheers.

Last edited by Sly (2010-03-31 17:20:08)

brisbin33

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From: boston, ma

Registered: 2008-07-24

Posts: 1,796

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Re: Packages and Dependencies

man pacman.  look at query options d and t.

by passing q as well, you can limit the list to just package names and pass the output to an additional pacman command to remove them.

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davidoffbeat

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Registered: 2010-03-26

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Re: Packages and Dependencies

Like this:

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

Regards.

Last edited by davidoffbeat (2010-03-31 18:16:27)

wonder

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From: Bucharest, Romania

Registered: 2006-07-05

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Re: Packages and Dependencies

Like this:

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

Regards.

or pacman -Rs $(pacman -Qdtq)

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brisbin33

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From: boston, ma

Registered: 2008-07-24

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Re: Packages and Dependencies

yeah, wonder's alias was the standard one i hoped you'd get to .  i have that aliased as 'pacorphans' and do run it time to time.

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