Should I remove old version of packages to free up some space? or I just leave it be. Just curious what happen to old version of outdated packages, I mean they are still somewhere in hard drive
Theres no requirement to have them.
But people like to keep a few versions on hand - maybe just the current and last.
Also note that the package cache stores the packages compressed - so they dont take up as much space as your uncompressed filesystem.
That said … theres a tool to ‘vacuum’ :
To remove all cache, while preserving the 2 latest versions:
paccache -rvk2
To entirely remove the cache of all uninstalled packages:
paccache -rvuk0
Both pacman and pamac are configurable as to the number of cached packages kept, so you may permanently set it to any desired number as well.
PS:
I will also point out where the cache is:
/var/cache/pacman/pkg
You can use that information a number of ways … like listing the contents and ranking them by size:
du -sm /var/cache/pacman/pkg/* | sort -h
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Oh Thank you!
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