paccache

Remove all but the 3 most recent package versions from the pacman cache

Set the number of package versions to keep

Perform a dry-run and show the number of candidate packages for deletion

Move candidate packages to a directory instead of deleting them

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paccache <operation> [options] [targets ...]

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Paccache removes old packages from the pacman cache directory . By default the last three versions of a package are kept .

-d, --dryrun Perform a dry run, only finding candidate packages .

-m, --move <dir> Move candidate packages from the cache directory to dir .

-r, --remove Remove candidate packages from the cache directory .

-a, --arch <arch> Scan for packages for a specific architecture . Default is to scan for all architectures .

-c, --cachedir <dir> Specify a different cache directory . This option can be used more than once . Default is to use the cache directory configured in pacman.conf .

-f, --force Apply force to mv and rm operations .

-h, --help Display syntax and command line options .

-i, --ignore <pkgs> Specify packages to ignore, comma -separated . Alternatively " -" can be used to read the package names from stdin, newline -delimited .

-k, --keep <num> Specify how many versions of each package are kept in the cache directory, default is 3 .

--nocolor Remove color from the output .

-q, --quiet Minimize the output .

-u, --uninstalled Target uninstalled packages .

-v, --verbose Increase verbosity, can be specified up to 3 times .

-z, --null Use null delimiters for candidate names (only with -v and -vv) .

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The package cache can be cleaned periodically using the systemd timer paccache.timer . If the timer is enabled the cache will be cleaned weekly with paccache default options .

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Bugs? You must be kidding; there are no bugs in this software . But if we happen to be wrong, send us an email with as much detail as possible to pacman -contrib@lists .archlinux .org .

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Current maintainers:

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'-04' '+03' .sp -1

2.3 Johannes Löthberg <johannes@kyriasis .com>

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'-04' '+03' .sp -1

2.3 Daniel M . Capella <polyzen@archlinux .info>

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For additional contributors, use git shortlog -s on the pacman -contrib .git repository .

pacman(8), pacman.conf(5), systemctl(1)