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pkgdu is a tool to display packages disk usage size for Arch Linux.

Table of Contents

• Installation
  • Cargo
  • Arch Linux
• Usage
• License

Installation

Cargo

pkgdu can be used without installation by run:

$ cargo run

To install in $HOME/.cargo/bin, run:

$ cargo install --path .

Arch Linux

pkgdu can be installed from AUR. To build and install arch package from GIT source:

$ git clone https://github.com/bpetlert/pkgdu.git
$ cd pkgdu
$ makepkg -p PKGBUILD.local
$ pacman -U pkgdu-xxxx-1-x86_64.pkg.tar

Usage

Normal output

$ pkgdu --si | head
 5.61 GB     kicad-library-3d
 1.44 GB     texlive-fontsextra
 981.10 MB   mingw-w64-gcc
 556.60 MB   wine
 555.80 MB   rust
 436.62 MB   libreoffice-fresh
 412.01 MB   texlive-core
 390.17 MB   languagetool
 386.89 MB   llvm
 367.21 MB   noto-fonts-extra

Include grand total

$ pkgdu --total --si | tail
 694 B       fuse-common
 221 B       dashbinsh
 0 B         base
 0 B         ca-certificates
 0 B         default-cursors
 0 B         kde-system-meta
 0 B         msmtp-mta
 0 B         ruby-bundledgems
 0 B         ruby-stdlib
 29.96 GB    (TOTAL)

Show only grand total

$ pkgdu --quiet --si
 29.96 GB   (TOTAL)

Filter package name using glob pettern

$ pkgdu --description --total --si "cargo-*"
 71.28 MB    cargo-c           A cargo subcommand to build and install C-ABI compatibile dynamic and static libraries
 20.41 MB    cargo-make        Rust task runner and build tool
 15.15 MB    cargo-binutils    Cargo subcommands to invoke the LLVM tools shipped with the Rust toolchain
 11.84 MB    cargo-deny        Cargo plugin for linting your dependencies
 9.76 MB     cargo-udeps       Find unused dependencies in Cargo.toml
 7.62 MB     cargo-edit        Managing cargo dependencies from the command line
 7.30 MB     cargo-tarpaulin   Tool to analyse test coverage of cargo projects
 7.01 MB     cargo-expand      Subcommand to show result of macro expansion
 6.98 MB     cargo-outdated    A cargo subcommand for displaying when Rust dependencies are out of date
 6.06 MB     cargo-audit       Audit Cargo.lock for crates with security vulnerabilities
 5.08 MB     cargo-release     Cargo subcommand "release": everything about releasing a rust crate
 2.84 MB     cargo-watch       Utility for Cargo to compile projects when sources change
 1.13 MB     cargo-bloat       Find out what takes most of the space in your executable
 172.46 MB   (TOTAL)

How many packages and how much disk space required for installing zstd?

$ pkgdu --total --si --recursive-depends-on "zstd"
 144.41 MB   gcc-libs
 49.66 MB    glibc
 8.59 MB     bash
 5.42 MB     linux-api-headers
 4.14 MB     iana-etc
 4.10 MB     ncurses
 2.14 MB     tzdata
 1.33 MB     xz
 1.24 MB     zstd
 774.82 kB   readline
 404.88 kB   lz4
 348.35 kB   zlib
 21.79 kB    filesystem
 222.60 MB   (TOTAL)

License

GNU General Public License v3.0 or later