Removing orphan packages with Pacman

September 2007

ℹ️ Learn how to find and remove orphan packages in Arch Linux using pacman commands.

A quick Arch tip : Get the list of orphan packages (packages no longer needed by any other packages) in pacman by with

pacman -Qtdq

Then remove the packages using :

pacman -Rc package_name

Edit: Thanks JohnCC for correcting me.

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