Timeline for How to delete old packages installed by pacman in Arch Linux?
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| S May 27, 2020 at 10:28 | history | suggested | healthyCoder | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Added -r flag to remove and -m to move, without which "no operation specified" error will come |
| May 27, 2020 at 7:16 | review | Suggested edits | |||
| S May 27, 2020 at 10:28 | |||||
| Jan 30, 2019 at 7:23 | comment | added | Trevor | relevant page the ArchWiki: wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/pacman#Cleaning_the_package_cache | |
| Oct 10, 2018 at 6:38 | comment | added | Post Self | Welp, rm -rf /var/cache/pacman/pkg was the wrong thing to do | |
| Sep 27, 2018 at 16:31 | comment | added | Cbhihe | +1, but I suggest $ pacman -Ql pacman-contrib | awk -F"[/ ]" '/\/usr\/bin\/./ {print $NF}' to avoid a blank line in results ? ;-) | |
| Jun 1, 2018 at 8:08 | history | edited | jasonwryan | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Updated for pacman 5.1 |
| Jun 1, 2018 at 6:43 | comment | added | pfrenssen | If you don't have paccache you can get it by installing the pacman-contrib package. | |
| Jul 6, 2017 at 12:32 | vote | accept | sherrellbc | ||
| Jul 28, 2015 at 16:19 | comment | added | tuk0z | jasonwryan said it :) Also be really careful with the double --clean switch: that forbids easily reverting to the working package, in case any issue happens with the latest version (eg new package relies on an older lib or Python release; same with hardware and latest kernel). I find setting the pacman cache elsewhere than / a much better solution (just set the path in /etc/pacman.conf). | |
| Jun 17, 2014 at 7:28 | history | edited | jasonwryan | CC BY-SA 3.0 | Typos |
| Jun 15, 2014 at 23:23 | history | answered | jasonwryan | CC BY-SA 3.0 |