Instructions to clean up Arch Linux (Manjaro)

clean-up-arch-linux.md

Contents

• Clean pkg cache
• Remove unused packages (orphans)
• Clean cache in /home
• remove old config files
• Find and Remove
  • duplicates
  • empty files
  • empty directories
  • broken symlinks
• Find Large files

1 Clean pkg cache

List packages

ls /var/cache/pacman/pkg/ | less 

Remove all pkg except those installed

sudo pacman -Sc 

Remove all files

sudo pacman -Scc

Download manually from archive.

Automatically remove

sudo pacman -S pacman-contrib

Remove

paccache -r

Systemd timer create file in /etc/systemd/system/paccache.timer with the following contents

[Unit]
Description=Clean-up old pacman pkg cache

[Timer]
OnCalendar=monthly
Persistent=true

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Enable by sudo systemctl start paccache.timer

Pacman post-transaction hook

2 remove unused packages

List unused

sudo pacman -Qtdq

Remove unused

sudo pacman -R $(pacman -Qtdq)

3 Clean home cache

cache is located in ~/.cache

4 Config Files

stored in ~/.config/

5 Find and remove

install rmlint package sudo pacman -S rm lint.

use sudo pacman -Rs $(pacman -Qtdq) instead of sudo pacman -R $(pacman -Qtdq) otherwise you would have to run it multiple times in a row

-Rcns

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Does sudo pacman -R $(pacman -Qtdq) also remove config files, something like apt autoremove --purge for Debian based distros?

Does sudo pacman -R $(pacman -Qtdq) also remove config files, something like apt autoremove --purge for Debian based distros?

Nope, see Removing packages

Thanks, very useful in maintaining arch-manjaro system clean

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use sudo pacman -Rs $(pacman -Qtdq)
instead of sudo pacman -R $(pacman -Qtdq) otherwise you would have to run it multiple times in a row

This won't work as -s is for --search
https://archlinux.org/pacman/pacman.8.html

That is only true for sync (-S) or query (-Q) operations. For remove (-R) operations -s is for recursive. See "Remove Options" on the pacman man page.

use sudo pacman -Rs $(pacman -Qtdq)
instead of sudo pacman -R $(pacman -Qtdq) otherwise you would have to run it multiple times in a row

This won't work as -s is for --search
https://archlinux.org/pacman/pacman.8.html

That is only true for sync (-S) or query (-Q) operations. For remove (-R) operations -s is for recursive. See "Remove Options" on the pacman man page.

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Immensely informative and practical.
Thank you so much!

Thanks!

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