pacman - Manage packages with pacman

Synopsis

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

Options

parameter required default choices comments
force
(added in 2.0)
 no
  • yes
  • no
When removing package - force remove package, without any checks. When update_cache - force redownload repo databases.
name
 no
Name of the package to install, upgrade, or remove.
aliases: pkg, package
recurse
(added in 1.3)
 no
  • yes
  • no
When removing a package, also remove its dependencies, provided that they are not required by other packages and were not explicitly installed by a user.
state
 no present
  • present
  • absent
  • latest
Desired state of the package.
update_cache
 no
  • yes
  • no
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
upgrade
(added in 2.0)
 no
  • yes
  • no
Whether or not to upgrade whole system

Examples

# Install package foo
- pacman:
    name: foo
    state: present

# Upgrade package foo
- pacman:
    name: foo
    state: latest
    update_cache: yes

# Remove packages foo and bar
- pacman:
    name: foo,bar
    state: absent

# Recursively remove package baz
- pacman:
    name: baz
    state: absent
    recurse: yes

# Run the equivalent of "pacman -Sy" as a separate step
- pacman:
    update_cache: yes

# Run the equivalent of "pacman -Su" as a separate step
- pacman:
    upgrade: yes

# Run the equivalent of "pacman -Syu" as a separate step
- pacman:
    update_cache: yes
    upgrade: yes

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

Return Values

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

name description returned type sample
packages
a list of packages that have been changed
 when upgrade is set to yes list ['package', 'other-package']

Status

This module is flagged as preview which means that it is not guaranteed to have a backwards compatible interface.

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