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Pacman Cache Maintenance
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You can also use Pacman to remove orphans as described in [[Pacman_Overview#Viewing_and_Removing_Orphans|this guide]] | You can also use Pacman to remove orphans as described in [[Pacman_Overview#Viewing_and_Removing_Orphans|this guide]] | ||
==Pacman Cache== | |||
By default pacman keeps a cache of downloaded packages on the system. This can be helpful if you need to copy or downgrade a package.<br /> | |||
But the cache can grow to include dozens of each package resulting in gigabytes of space. | |||
To remove all but the last 3 versions of a package in the cache: | |||
paccache -rvk3 | |||
==Pacnew and Pacsave files== | ==Pacnew and Pacsave files== | ||