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Danielbbom

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From: Brazil

Registered: 2025-06-08

Posts: 23

Problems deleting rest of pacman programs

Pacman never deletes program archives, this can cause unnecessary storage usage. Does anyone know of a way to easily clean up the remains of uninstalled programs?

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Scimmia

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Registered: 2012-09-01

Posts: 13,637

Re: Problems deleting rest of pacman programs

Are you talking about the cache? If so, see pacman -Sc, as well as options for it. There is also paccache in pacman-contrib.

Last edited by Scimmia (2025-06-16 01:02:04)

Danielbbom

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From: Brazil

Registered: 2025-06-08

Posts: 23

Re: Problems deleting rest of pacman programs

Are you talking about the cache? If so, see pacman -Sc, as well as options for it. There is also paccache in pacman-contrib.

Its the dotfiles of programs

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Scimmia

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Registered: 2012-09-01

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Re: Problems deleting rest of pacman programs

ah, then -Rn for configs, but if you're talking about your home dir/things created at runtime, there's no automated way.