On Tue, 2017-01-24 at 15:10 +0100, L. Rose wrote:

Hi,

I know, this is probably a very common question, but I couldn't find any information on the pacman wiki article about that, so I have to ask. How can I uninstall all packages on my system, which have been installed as a dependency, and aren't needed any longer? (Because I've uninstalled the dependent package or because the dependent package no longer depends on that dependency)

I've read about pacman -Qe, but this lists packages I've explicitly installed and don't want to remove. And please, don't just point to the wiki article, I've checked that already.

Thanks in advance,

Lukas

Orphans.

pacman -Rns $(pacman -Qtdq)

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pacman/Tips_and_tricks#Removing_un used_packages_.28orphans.29

Regards

Phil

On Jan 24, 2017 9:10 AM, "L. Rose" lists@lrose.de wrote:

Hi,

I know, this is probably a very common question, but I couldn't find any information on the pacman wiki article about that, so I have to ask. How can I uninstall all packages on my system, which have been installed as a dependency, and aren't needed any longer? (Because I've uninstalled the dependent package or because the dependent package no longer depends on that dependency)

I've read about pacman -Qe, but this lists packages I've explicitly installed and don't want to remove. And please, don't just point to the wiki article, I've checked that already.

Check again under https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pacman#Querying_package_databases (look for "orphan").

Best, Ista

Thanks in advance,

Lukas