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pro_devel

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Registered: 2017-02-18

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[solved]where downloaded packages stored ?

Where I can find the downloaded package/s from terminal ? usually the package/s from pacman ?
example : pacman -S gnome  , where gnome packages downloaded ?

Last edited by pro_devel (2017-02-20 15:08:34)

2ManyDogs

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Registered: 2012-01-15

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Re: [solved]where downloaded packages stored ?

Read the man pages. Packages are downloaded to wherever pacman.conf tells pacman to put the cache. https://www.archlinux.org/pacman/pacman.conf.5.html

A typical default is /var/cache/pacman/pkg/

Last edited by 2ManyDogs (2017-02-20 14:35:51)

eschwartz

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Registered: 2014-08-08

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Re: [solved]where downloaded packages stored ?

man -P 'less -p CacheDir' pacman.conf

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