pacman - Manage packages with pacman¶

Synopsis¶

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

Options¶

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: