Using the pacman-remove Command

• [R]emove a package and its dependencies recur[s]ively:

sudo pacman -Rs *package*

• [R]emove a package and its dependencies. Also do [n]ot save backups of configuration files:

sudo pacman -Rsn *package*

• [R]emove a package without prompting:

sudo pacman -R --noconfirm *package*

• [R]emove orphan packages (installed as [d]ependencies but no[t] required by any package):

sudo pacman -Rsn $(pacman -Qdtq)

• [R]emove a package and [c]ascade that to all packages that depend on it:

sudo pacman -Rc *package*

• List and [p]rint packages that would be affected (does not [R]emove any packages):

pacman -Rp *package*

• Display [h]elp:

pacman -Rh

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