Timeline for How to delete old packages installed by pacman in Arch Linux?
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| Nov 8, 2022 at 21:52 | comment | added | Bart van Oort | +1 for paccache -dvuk0, just what I needed for easy and safe cleanup of my pacman cache. Use paccache -rvuk0 to apply. | |
| Sep 17, 2019 at 6:04 | comment | added | hLk | the -k flag was new to me and not very well explained in the help dialog, so its usage here was useful. | |
| Oct 26, 2017 at 14:55 | comment | added | jasonwryan | Yes, I am familiar with the flag. My point is just adding more flags to the answer doesn't change the fact that it just replicates what is already here. | |
| Oct 26, 2017 at 9:53 | comment | added | strpeter | If you removed a lot of unused big packages, you want to remove them from pacman's cache. This is possible with the flag -u of paccache. Examples of big packages are e.g. Gnome, KDE, or Texlive to give you an idea. | |
| Oct 25, 2017 at 23:18 | comment | added | jasonwryan | How does this add to the existing answers, other than printing out the options? | |
| Oct 25, 2017 at 23:14 | review | First posts | |||
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| Oct 25, 2017 at 23:12 | history | answered | strpeter | CC BY-SA 3.0 |