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Commands tagged pacman from sorted by
Terminal - Commands tagged pacman - 6 results
for file in /usr/bin/*; do pacman -Qo "$file" &> /dev/null || echo "$file"; done
2014-04-22 21:57:08
User: malathion
Functions: echo file
Tags: Filesystem archlinux pacman packages cleaning
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List files that are not owned by any installed package

In this example I am returning all the files in /usr/bin that weren't put there by pacman, so that they can be moved to /usr/local/bin where they (most likely) belong.

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pacman -Qdt -q | xargs pacman --noconfirm -R
2014-02-27 05:17:57
User: b_t
Functions: xargs
Tags: archlinux arch linux pacman orphan
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Remove orphaned dependencies on Arch

-Qdt Lists dependencies/packages which are no longer required by any packages

-q Output only package name (not the version number)

-R Remove package(s)

Rest is self-explanatory.

I just started out with Arch - so if there is any better/standard method to achieve the same - please suggest.

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pacman -Qi | grep 'Name\|Size\|Description' | cut -d: -f2 | paste - - - | awk -F'\t' '{ print $2, "\t", $1, "\t", $3 }' | sort -rn
2012-11-20 03:40:55
User: GetterNoCheddar
Functions: awk cut grep paste sort
Tags: archlinux arch linux arch.linux pacman packages
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Arch Linux sort installed packages by size

This, like the other commands listed here, displays installed arch packages. Unlike the other ones this also displays the short description so you can see what that package does without having to go to google. It also shows the largest packages on top. You can optionally pipe this through head to display an arbitrary number of the largest packages installed (e.g. ... | head -30 # for the largest 30 packages installed)

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expac -S -H M "%m %n"|sort -n
2012-06-14 19:41:21
User: gtmanfred
Functions: sort
Tags: archlinux arch linux arch.linux pacman packages
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Arch Linux sort installed packages by size

M is size in megabytes, man expac to see other sizes

%m is install size

%k is download size

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pacman -Qi $(pacman -Qq)|grep 'Name\|Size'| cut -d: -f2 | paste - - | column -t | sort -nk2
2011-05-03 13:02:06
User: minus
Functions: column cut grep paste sort
Tags: archlinux arch linux arch.linux pacman packages
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Arch Linux sort installed packages by size
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paste <(pacman -Q | awk '{ print $1; }' | xargs pacman -Qi | grep 'Size' | awk '{ print $4$5; }') <(pacman -Q | awk '{print $1; }') | sort -n | column -t
2011-01-07 18:43:18
User: BruceLEET
Functions: awk column grep paste sort xargs
Tags: archlinux arch linux arch.linux pacman packages
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Arch Linux sort installed packages by size

This one-liner will output installed packages sorted by size in Kilobytes.

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