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Pacman it is, without a doubt, one of the best package managers. However, some of its associated managers (such as Yogurt o Packer) although they are very good, they leave a little to be desired. In particular, by staying truncate la installation de packages through AUR it is common for installed dependencies not to be removed properly after a compilation failure. This is especially true, the higher the number of dependencies to install. |
The solution is very simple: we must delete the packages that were orphaned (that is, no other package needs them and we can delete them without causing problems).
I just opened a terminal and wrote:
sudo pacman -Rs $ (pacman -Qtdq)
What it does is delete all the packages and their dependencies (pacman -Rs) from a specific package list (which, in our case, are the orphaned packages, whose list is obtained with pacman -Qtdq).
For those who come from Ubuntu, this command is similar to sudo apt-get autoremove.
Good!
Phenomenal! It suited me like a glove, I released about 1 GB of garbage from when I first met arch!
Perfect, I released 425,85 MiB of packages that did not work for me, thanks!
On the contrary, that's what we are for!
Cheers! Paul.
Thanks for the article. I had replaced Openbox with Cinnamon and wanted to leave the system clean. I ended up freeing up a tremendous amount of space.
You're welcome! Hug! Paul.
Good but what happens when in Antergos and in the console we throw $ yaourt -Syua and the answer is:
:: Synchronizing the package databases ...
core is up to date
extra is up to date
community is up to date
antergos is up to date
ksplash-arch-simple: Orphan
plasma-theme-caledonia: Orphan
External packages: / 53/53
I've googled information but found no answer.
It's the same, yaourt uses pacman sometimes, it's what I understand hahaha
For the same, you can use a simple sudo pacman -Rs $ (pacman -Qtdq) and that way you forget about all the orphans. In yaourt there should be a similar form but I haven't been fiddling with the manager so much.
In any case, when something is installed in Arch via yaourt it is also recognized by pacman.
I did it with this other command that is slightly different:
$ sudo pacman -Rns $ (pacman -Qtdq)
Although the one you indicate works perfectly, I have verified it.
I have read that there are those who are not in favor of eliminating any orphan package.
I use it but I really don't have the explanation of the chaparral command (do you know?) I would like to know