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FerBenzaa

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Registered: 2009-01-30

Posts: 32

Pacman remove

A quick question regarding pacman.
I hope you guys can help me understand this.

When you remove a program with pacman you use

pacman -R package_name

After removing the package, once I re-install it and I noticed that pacman didnt download anything.

Does this mean that pacman saves the program somewhere in case that I re-install it?

And the true question,

Is there a way to completely remove a program?
even if this means to download it again.

Allan

Pacman

From: Brisbane, AU

Registered: 2007-06-09

Posts: 11,503

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Re: Pacman remove

Downloaded packages are store in a cache (/var/cache/pacman/pkg).  You can use "pacman -Scc" to clear those and "pacman -Sc" to only delete the ones that you do not have installed (depending on your configuration - see "man pacman.conf")

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