[SOLVED] Question about cleaning the package cache

scatherinch · 2023-04-20 10:19:56

I've been reading up on pacman at the arch wiki on how to properly clean my cache and found out that this can usually be done with pacman -Scc. However, whenever I run the command, it tells me it cleans the directory ( /var/cache/pacman/pkg/ ), but I still see a ton of files in there. Am I not doing something correctly to purge these?

I also tried sudo paccache -rk1

How can I completely get rid of these leftover files?

Last edited by scatherinch (2023-04-20 11:49:59)

V1del · 2023-04-20 10:28:52

paccache -rk1 will leave something over by definition, -Scc shouldn't, which left over files are you referring to exactly? Output of ls -l /var/cache/pacman/pkg/ ?

scatherinch · 2023-04-20 10:41:07

Here you go!:

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9055875 Apr  6 22:40 dolphin-emu-1:5.0.r18498.46b99671d9-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root     566 Apr  6 10:04 dolphin-emu-1:5.0.r18498.46b99671d9-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst.sig
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   36623 Apr 20 01:06 libwbclient-4.18.2-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root     310 Apr 20 01:06 libwbclient-4.18.2-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst.sig
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   49638 Apr 16 22:34 pacman-contrib-1.9.0-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root     566 Apr 16 22:34 pacman-contrib-1.9.0-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst.sig
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7083232 Apr 20 01:07 smbclient-4.18.2-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root     310 Apr 20 01:07 smbclient-4.18.2-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst.sig

Last edited by scatherinch (2023-04-20 10:43:49)

V1del · 2023-04-20 10:46:54

That's not "a ton of files", all of those are the current version of the respective packages, if this is after you ran paccache -rk1 but you installed them after pacman -Scc then this is the completely expected result. paccache -rk1 keeps 1 version of any given package.

scatherinch · 2023-04-20 10:58:13

Oh, I deleted the original folder after I realized there was quite a bit of bloat in there after I did a new installation.

I do understand what you're saying and I read that in the wiki, but I suppose what I'm trying to ask is if there there's a way to remove the contents of this folder from the cli without having to delete the folder again. I simply like to keep my system tidy and organized to keep up with my regular cleaning rituals when I power my system down.

Last edited by scatherinch (2023-04-20 11:13:23)

kermit63 · 2023-04-20 11:34:43

paccache -rk0 will remove everything and leave you with a blank /var/cache/pacman/pkg folder.

scatherinch · 2023-04-20 11:48:56

Ah, thank you, @kermit63! That certainly did the trick and now I have a fresh cache! For some reason I thought it would be more difficult than that.

Trilby · 2023-04-20 12:00:33

You don't need a seperate tool for that goal - just `rm /var/cache/pacman/pkg/*`

bestfriend · 2023-04-21 02:41:40

You can also set up a paccache systemd-timer or pacman hook to automate cleaning the cache.

systemctl enable --now paccache.timer

will setup paccache -rk3 to run every three days. You can locate the paccache.service file to adjust this to your needs.

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