[SOLVED]How to check missing essentials & remove unnneded files ?

jojo06 · 2023-11-23 21:54:04

I had previously installed some things like cinnamon etc (which I don't use now), I guess you have to uninstall everything with pacman -Rsnc. But because of the dependency issue, I uninstalled with -R as suggested.

When I was installing the Sway theme, I realized that there are some corruptions when uninstalling and reinstalling the sway and its configuration, because the old files are not completely removed. When I did ls -a in Home, I found cinnamon and gnome and even lightdm and etc. that I had uninstalled before. There were config and system files that were empty. I deleted all of them, there seems to be no problem now.

But I need two commands.
1-) How do I delete old files of unnecessary installations ?
2-) I uninstalled gtk etc. How do I check for missing necessary and essential files and reinstall them ?

Last edited by jojo06 (2023-11-23 23:48:52)

Zod · 2023-11-23 22:03:51

rtfw

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/System_maintenance

WorMzy · 2023-11-23 22:05:03

You are conflating system files (i.e. those installed by pacman) and userspace files (i.e. those created by applications within a user's home directory). The latter are your responsibility to manage, as you see fit. If you delete an application's config files, the application will (likely) recreate them with defaults the next time you run it. If you want a completely clean break, create a new user.

See also: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/System … tion_files

jojo06 · 2023-11-23 23:48:40

Zod wrote:

rtfw
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/System_maintenance

Attaboy with attitude

WorMzy wrote:

You are conflating system files (i.e. those installed by pacman) and userspace files (i.e. those created by applications within a user's home directory). The latter are your responsibility to manage, as you see fit. If you delete an application's config files, the application will (likely) recreate them with defaults the next time you run it. If you want a completely clean break, create a new user.
See also: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/System … tion_files

Thank you very much for your help and answer. That should do the trick.

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[SOLVED]How to check missing essentials & remove unnneded files ?

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