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#1 2013-01-15 02:09:41
- swatquest
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paccache- remove the cache of uninstalled packages
Because paccache does not remove the cache of uninstalled packages, you can display them with diff from diffutils and then optionally delete each package in the /var/cache/pacman/pkg directory:
pacman -S diff
diff -y <(pacman -Qq) <(ls /var/cache/pacman/pkg/ | sed 's/^\(.*\)-[^-]*-[^-]*-[^-]*$/\1/' | sort -u)If you want to display the output with colors install colordiff:
pacman -S colordiff
colordiff -y <(pacman -Qq) <(ls /var/cache/pacman/pkg/ | sed 's/^\(.*\)-[^-]*-[^-]*-[^-]*$/\1/' | sort -u)
LC_MESSAGES - pacman.mo
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paccache -h
-k <num> keep 'num' of each package in 'cachedir' (default: 3).
-u target uninstalled packages.
# paccache -dvuk0
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#2 2013-01-15 02:39:09
- falconindy
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Re: paccache- remove the cache of uninstalled packages
Because paccache does not remove the cache of uninstalled packages
I've no idea what this means, but paccache can definitely remove uninstalled packages. Hell, even pacman alone can remove uninstalled packages.
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#3 2013-01-15 02:57:08
- swatquest
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Re: paccache- remove the cache of uninstalled packages
falconindy,
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pa … lean_cache
Selectively clean cache
paccache from pacman-contrib
paccache -rv
It does not remove all.
Depends on option
<num> k-keep 'a' of each package in 'CacheDir'
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#5 2013-01-15 03:33:22
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Re: paccache- remove the cache of uninstalled packages
Paccache is very useful.
Congratulations.
Ex.
sudo pacman -S --noconfirm gedit slim slim-themes nautilus && sudo pacman -Rscn --noconfirm gedit slim slim-themes nautilus
target (6): exempi-2.2.0-1 gnome-desktop-1:3.6.2-1 gedit-3.6.2-2
nautilus-3.6.3-1 slim-1.3.4-4 slim-themes-1.2.3-6
paccache -h
-k <num> keep 'num' of each package in 'cachedir' (default: 3).
-u target uninstalled packages.
# paccache -dvuk0
==> Candidate packages:
exempi-2.2.0-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
gedit-3.6.2-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
gnome-desktop-1:3.6.2-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
nautilus-3.6.3-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
slim-themes-1.2.3-6-any.pkg.tar.xz
slim-1.3.4-4-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
==> finished dry run: 6 candidates (diskspace saved: 10.22 MiB)
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#6 2013-01-15 03:41:35
- Allan
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Re: paccache- remove the cache of uninstalled packages
I'll keave falconindy to follow-up paccahce. But this is exactly what "pacman -Sc" does with "CleanMethod = KeepInstalled" (default) in pacman.conf
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#7 2013-01-15 05:59:33
- ngoonee
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Re: paccache- remove the cache of uninstalled packages
swatquest, I guess you previously posted up a script here, hence the placing in Community Contributions, but seeing as it has been (presumably) removed and falconindy's paccache does the same thing, I'm going to move this to 'Pacman and Package Update Issues'. I'd also suggest that you rename the thread title to something a bit more suitable to where the discussion has gone, as a courtesy to those poor googlers from the year 2014.
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