pacman --remove

Arch Linux package manager utility.

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• Display help for this subcommand:

pacman --remove --help

• Remove a package and its dependencies:

sudo pacman --remove --recursive {package_name}

• Remove a package and both its dependencies and configuration files:

sudo pacman --remove --recursive --nosave {package_name}

• Remove a package without prompting:

sudo pacman --remove --noconfirm {package_name}

• Remove orphan packages (installed as dependencies but not required by any package):

sudo pacman --remove --recursive --nosave $(pacman --query --unrequired --deps --quiet)

• Remove a package and all packages that depend on it:

sudo pacman --remove --cascade {package_name}

• List packages that would be affected (does not remove any packages):

pacman --remove --print {package_name}

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