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linderox

Member

Registered: 2007-04-23

Posts: 48

deleting old packages from Cache

How to remove old packages from my cache dir if:
1)there is the same package,but newer?
2)It is a very old package,that all another have to use another version of it?

Dheart

Member

From: Sofia, Bulgaria

Registered: 2006-10-26

Posts: 937

Re: deleting old packages from Cache

pacman -Sc

Removes older packages from cache.

pacman -Scc

Removes all packages from cache.

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shining

Pacman Developer

Registered: 2006-05-10

Posts: 2,043

Re: deleting old packages from Cache

pacman -Sc

Removes older packages from cache.

Not anymore. Since 3.1, it now removes packages that are not currently installed.
For example, if you downgrade a package, pacman -Sc will remove the newer version of that package, because you have the older one installed.

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