Get information about packages through yaourt

In this article I will show you how you can obtain the information about the packages in the system through package manager wrapper.I am sitting on Arch Linux and the default package manager is pacman. But here I am going to demonstrate a wrapper over pacman called “yaourt“.

So,without much ado, here is what it produced when I asked for the system package stats:

bhaskar@bhaskar-laptop_14:22:00_Wed Mar 30:~> sudo yaourt --stats
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| Archlinux (yaourt 0.9.5.3) |
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Total installed packages: 772
Explicitly installed packages: 279
Packages installed as dependencies to run other packages: 493
Packages out of date: 45
Where 27 packages seems no more used by any package:
beanshell eggdbus hsqldb-java kernel26-headers ladspa libgphoto2 libgsf-gnome libmspack liboil libtracker libvncserver libxfontcache libxxf86misc
lirc-utils loudmouth lucene musicbrainz nickle perl-dbd-mysql perl-term-readkey saxon seed vbetool vigra xcursor-themes xorg-apps xorg-xkb-utils
Hold packages: (2) pacman glibc
Ignored packages: (0)
Ignored groups: (0)

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Number of configured repositories: 7
Packages by repositories (ordered by pacmans priority):
core(159), extra(550), extra(0), community(31), extra(0), archlinuxfr(3), extra(0), others*(29)

*others are packages from local build or AUR Unsupported

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Theorical space used by packages: 3649M
Real space used by packages: 3202M
Space used by pkg downloaded in cache (cachedir): 8.0G
Space used by src downloaded in cache: null


Hope this will help.

Cheers!
Bhaskar