community.general.pacman – Manage packages with pacman

Note

This plugin is part of the community.general collection (version 1.3.2).

To install it use: ansible-galaxy collection install community.general.

To use it in a playbook, specify: community.general.pacman.

Synopsis

  • Manage packages with the pacman package manager, which is used by Arch Linux and its variants.

Parameters

Parameter Choices/Defaults Comments
extra_args
string
Additional option to pass to pacman when enforcing state.
force
boolean
    Choices:
  • no ←
  • yes
When removing package, force remove package, without any checks. Same as `extra_args="--nodeps --nodeps"`. When update_cache, force redownload repo databases. Same as `update_cache_extra_args="--refresh --refresh"`.
name
list / elements=string
Name or list of names of the package(s) or file(s) to install, upgrade, or remove. Can't be used in combination with upgrade.

aliases: package, pkg
state
string
    Choices:
  • absent
  • latest
  • present ←
  • installed
  • removed
Desired state of the package.
update_cache
boolean
    Choices:
  • no ←
  • yes
Whether or not to refresh the master package lists.
This can be run as part of a package installation or as a separate step.

aliases: update-cache
update_cache_extra_args
string
Additional option to pass to pacman when enforcing update_cache.
upgrade
boolean
    Choices:
  • no ←
  • yes
Whether or not to upgrade the whole system. Can't be used in combination with name.
upgrade_extra_args
string
Additional option to pass to pacman when enforcing upgrade.

Notes

Note

  • When used with a loop: each package will be processed individually, it is much more efficient to pass the list directly to the name option.

Examples

- name: Install package foo from repo
  community.general.pacman:
    name: foo
    state: present

- name: Install package bar from file
  community.general.pacman:
    name: ~/bar-1.0-1-any.pkg.tar.xz
    state: present

- name: Install package foo from repo and bar from file
  community.general.pacman:
    name:
      - foo
      - ~/bar-1.0-1-any.pkg.tar.xz
    state: present

- name: Upgrade package foo
  community.general.pacman:
    name: foo
    state: latest
    update_cache: yes

- name: Remove packages foo and bar
  community.general.pacman:
    name:
      - foo
      - bar
    state: absent

- name: Recursively remove package baz
  community.general.pacman:
    name: baz
    state: absent
    extra_args: --recursive

- name: Run the equivalent of "pacman -Sy" as a separate step
  community.general.pacman:
    update_cache: yes

- name: Run the equivalent of "pacman -Su" as a separate step
  community.general.pacman:
    upgrade: yes

- name: Run the equivalent of "pacman -Syu" as a separate step
  community.general.pacman:
    update_cache: yes
    upgrade: yes

- name: Run the equivalent of "pacman -Rdd", force remove package baz
  community.general.pacman:
    name: baz
    state: absent
    force: yes

Return Values

Common return values are documented here, the following are the fields unique to this module:

Key Returned Description
packages
list / elements=string
when upgrade is set to yes
a list of packages that have been changed

Sample:
['package', 'other-package']


Authors

  • Indrajit Raychaudhuri (@indrajitr)
  • Aaron Bull Schaefer (@elasticdog) <aaron@elasticdog.com>
  • Maxime de Roucy (@tchernomax)

© 2012–2018 Michael DeHaan
© 2018–2019 Red Hat, Inc.
Licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3.
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/2.10/collections/community/general/pacman_module.html