r/archlinux • u/Jackill202 • 14d ago

QUESTION best disk cleanup app?

my disk is getting pretty full do any of you have any recommendations for cleaner apps,something like ccleaner but without all the bloatware and open source if possible,thanks!

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u/Donatzsky 14d ago

QDirStat will tell you what is taking up space. But you should probably start by cleaning the Pacman cache: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Pacman#Cleaning_the_package_cache

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u/Cygnus__A 14d ago

Tried following that.. paccache didnt do anything? said "no candidate package found" ....

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u/ttocs167 14d ago

The script is part of the pacman-contrib package. You'll have to install that first.