[Script] List packages by installed size. Useful to free HD space

Snowman · 2009-08-15 19:56:23

Hi,

Here's a small script that sort the installed packages by decreasing installed size. It's useful to find unused packages that take lots of HD space when doing a system clean-up. I believe there was a similar script a couple or years ago in the forums but I couldn't find it so I made one. There might be better ways to do that (like getting the info straight from the local db instead of using pacman) but I didn't want to spend too much time on it.

#!/bin/bash
# Sort installed packages by decreasing installed size. Useful for system clean-up.

for package in $(pacman -Qq); do
    echo $(pacman -Qi $package |grep 'Installed Size' |awk '{print $4 " " $5}') : $package
done |sort -g -r

EDIT: removed unecessary pipe to awk

Heller_Barde · 2009-08-15 21:22:42

you could use pacgraph it's even more suited, because it lists toplevel packages instead of also packages that are only dependencies
(but then again, you probably knew that already, being a dev/mod)

EDIT: you could use "pacman -Qq" instead of the piping into awk on the first line

Last edited by Heller_Barde (2009-08-15 21:24:15)

Snowman · 2009-08-16 05:35:13

Heller_Barde wrote:

you could use pacgraph it's even more suited, because it lists toplevel packages instead of also packages that are only dependencies
(but then again, you probably knew that already, being a dev/mod)

I wasn't aware of pacgraph. I don't visit much the forum anymore. It looks like a cool tool. But it seems to me that, for package cleanup, it is more convenient to have the packages listed in a single column than having to examine a figure. I'll probably give it a try next time I need to do some cleanup.

Heller_Barde wrote:

EDIT: you could use "pacman -Qq" instead of the piping into awk on the first line

Thanks. I did the change in the script. I never used the -q option before. That's why I didn't used it.

Allan · 2009-08-16 05:38:05

This does something similar to pacgraph but without the graph:
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=73098

Snowman · 2009-08-16 05:42:48

Allan wrote:

This does something similar to pacgraph but without the graph:
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=73098

The name tells me something. That might be the script I had in mind but couldn't find.

keenerd · 2009-08-23 17:37:04

You could still use Pacgraph. It has a "without the graph" mode, --console. Or just -c.
pacgraph --console
will generate the single column of stats you want.

plurt · 2009-08-23 18:19:07

+1 to pacgraph -c

Why reinvent the wheel?

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#1 2009-08-15 19:56:23

[Script] List packages by installed size. Useful to free HD space

#2 2009-08-15 21:22:42

Re: [Script] List packages by installed size. Useful to free HD space

#3 2009-08-16 05:35:13

Re: [Script] List packages by installed size. Useful to free HD space

#4 2009-08-16 05:38:05

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#5 2009-08-16 05:42:48

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#6 2009-08-23 17:37:04

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