Manpages - paccache.8

paccache - flexible pacman cache cleaning utility

paccache <operation> [options] [targets…]

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.

–min-atime <age>, –min-mtime <age>

Only consider packages for removal with atime respectively mtime older than specified. The age can be given as 10d, 1m, 1y, 1y1m etc.

-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).

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’s default options.

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

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.

Current maintainers:

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Johannes Löthberg <johannes@kyriasis.com>

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Daniel M. Capella <polyzen@archlinux.org>

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