A tool to clean your arch system from it's deprecated and out-of-date AUR packages. Pacshweep allows you to know what packages are deprecated on your system and can help you remove or replace them, see man for more details. Coded with GNU bash, and ncurses.

$ git clone https://github.com/Rupioe/pacshweep

$ cd pacshweep

Tested on Linux 64 bits :

$ make

$ sudo make install

Arch Linux :

$ yay -S pacshweep

There is a GUI available, it is automatically included in the AUR packages and included is the make if you install from source. If you don't want to compile the GUI you can use

$ make nogui

You can configure a minimum time to wait before re-downloading the database(s) at pacswheep execution. Edit the config file :

$ vim ~/.config/pacswheep/pac.conf

And input your chosen value :

UPDATE_TIME=1d

is the default value, use nothing to download each run, no suffix for ticks, s for seconds, mi for minutes, d for days, m for months and y for years. To save space if the files are going to be re downloaded each time, then they are deleted after each use.

An internet connection is needed if you havent set UPDATE_TIME in pac.conf and run pacshweep at least once.

$ pacshweep --help

Or

$ pacswheep-gui

Necessary software :

• wget
• wc
• rm
• cat
• sed
• paste
• install
• sort
• comm

For the GUI :

• stdio.h
• stdlib.h
• ncurses.h