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Jookia

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From: Australia

Registered: 2009-11-19

Posts: 103

Removing Configuration + Manually Installed Packages

Is there a way to automatically remove those configuration files and stuff scattered around the system? I want to completely remove gnome and I want to know which packages I specifically wrote 'pacman -S blah' so blah was specifically installed and not a dependency. How can I find the ones I specifically installed?

bharani

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From: Karaikudi, India

Registered: 2009-07-12

Posts: 202

Re: Removing Configuration + Manually Installed Packages

man pacman

You could safely remove configuration files in your home directory after removing applications.

Last edited by bharani (2010-03-18 08:24:21)

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hbekel

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Registered: 2008-10-04

Posts: 311

Re: Removing Configuration + Manually Installed Packages

To help you searching: the term is "explicitly installed package", not "specifically" or "manually".

Note that configuration files written to your home directory are not tracked by pacman, so you'll have to remove those yourself.