Aura - remove uninstalled pkgs

General system Applications
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Playing with aura, read the user guide, but cannot work out the equivalent command to:

sudo paccache -ruk0

Am I going blind :smiley:

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Is it not just aura -Scc ?

https://fosskers.github.io/aura/pacman.html#clearing-your-package-cache

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What’s the deal with aura?
Any benefits compared to pacman?

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It’s written in Haskell, separates repo and AUR, and does PKGBUILD parsing to check for obvious issues (e.g. dodgy Bash script behaviour). It looks pretty interesting.

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It seems pretty good, it introduces the ability to roll-back an update.

https://fosskers.github.io/aura/introduction.html

Have logged an issue on the github for this, the only thing I have found is -Sc but that wipes all but one package, I like to hold three in my cache (but it does remove the uninstalled packages)

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Are you referring to this?

sudo paccache -rk0 → leaves no cache, leaves nothing, just the package you have now.

sudo paccache -rk1 → just leave one

sudo paccache -rk2 → only leaves two
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As it says:

  1. Completely wipes the cache

  2. Wipes, leaves the most recent installed only

  3. Wipes, leaves the two most recent installed of that package.

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I run paccache without sudo and it works here. Something odd on my end?

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You are right, it also works without sudo :+1:

$ paccache -rk0

==> finished: 202 packages removed (disk space saved: 642.67 MiB)
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@xircon

Bad translation on my part, sorry.

(I’ve already fixed it.)

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No!

Cache directory: /var/cache/pacman/pkg/
:: Do you want to remove ALL files from cache? [y/N]
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You sure? :wink:

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sudo aura -Scc

Cache directory: /var/cache/pacman/pkg/
:: Do you want to remove ALL files from cache? [y/N]

Database directory: /var/lib/pacman/
:: Do you want to remove unused repositories? [Y/n]
removing unused sync repositories...

-Scc appears to want to wipe the cache…

-Sc wipes all but one.

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Oh, wait, I misread u as v.

-u, --uninstalled     target uninstalled packages.
-v, --verbose         increase verbosity. specify up to 3 times.

So yes, they’re different things… :persevere:

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I think we are at cross-purposes :rofl: you were talking about paccache, I was talking about aura.

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This is my script so far:

#!/bin/bash

colour="underline"

boxp "Updating Mirrors" 1 $colour

boxp "Finding fastest Arch mirror......." 1 $colour 
sudo reflector --verbose --latest 40 --sort rate --save /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist &> /dev/null
echo "Done."

file="$HOME/.up.txt"
date=~/.updates/$(date +%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M)
sudo aura  -Syy
checkupdates > ~/.up.txt
minimumsize=1
actualsize=$(wc -c <"$file")

boxp "Repos & AUR" 1 $colour

sudo aura -Syu --noconfirm
sudo aura -Auax --noconfirm

if [ $actualsize -ge $minimumsize ]; then
    cp $file $date
else
    echo size is under $minimumsize bytes
fi

boxp "Clearing Cache" 1 $colour

sudo aura -Cc 3 --noconfirm
sudo paccache -ruk0
boxp "Clear saved states - leave 5." 1 $colour
sudo aura -Bc 5 --noconfirm

#╔═════════╗
#║ Orphans ║
#╚═════════╝
boxp "Orphans" 1 $colour 
sudo aura -Oj --noconfirm
boxp "Finished" 1 $colour

boxp is my python script to draw boxes around strings.

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Had a reply on GitHub, this feature is not available :frowning:

But the Dev likes the idea… Watch this space " " :smiley: