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Checking and cleaning packages and package cache in Parabola GNUlinux

Check the number of packages in cache

Based on this link and on Arch linux Wiki

Open a terminal and run the code

  sudo ls /var/cache/pacman/pkg/ | wc -l

6000

Check space used by packages (cache)

  du -sh /var/cache/pacman/pkg/

7,3G	var/cache/pacman/pkg

Remove packages in cache, keeping one version (last)

  paccache -rk1

==> finished 1146 packages removed (disk space saved: 4.04 GiB)

Remove all of uninstalled packages in cache

  paccache -ruk0

…90.88 Mib

  pacman -Sc