Arch Linux

jpmorin

Member

Registered: 2018-11-18

Posts: 1

Clean installed packages area.

I had install Archlinux many years ago.
After many updates, in /var/cache/pacman/pkg,
there are all old versions of each package.
For retrieve some disk space, how can I delete
the old versions without break dependenties ?
Thanks for help.

Slithery

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From: Norfolk, UK

Registered: 2013-12-01

Posts: 5,776

Re: Clean installed packages area.

Welcome to the forums jpmorin

The first place to check before posting is the wiki. It usually already has the answer...
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pa … kage_cache

But just to clarify it's not an 'installed packages area' it's just a cache of package files that have previously been installed. You can just manually delete it all without it breaking anything.

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