Pacman

Pacman is the default package manager for Arch Linux. The following commands will probably also work for tools like yay or yaourt that are supposed to share the pacman synyax.

Removes package, config files, unnecessary dependencies, packages that depend on it

pacman -Rnsc

Queries dependencies that are unnecessary

pacman -Qdt

Removes packages and dependencies of un-needed packages

pacman -Rns $(pacman -Qdtq)

list packages explicitly installed (Not installed as dependencies)

pacman -Qe

list packages explicitly installed and not dependencies to other programs

pacman -Qet

Clear cache except currently installed

pacman -Sc

Remove package ignoring dependency issues

pacman -Rdd

Lists files owned by package

pacman -Qlq <package>

Only show executables

pacman -Qlq <package> | grep bin

See which package owns a file

pacman -Qo <file>

Check which package owns an executable

pacman -Qo $( which <executable> )

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