pacman - Package manager for Archlinux

Author:Afterburn

Synopsis

New in version 1.0.

Manages Archlinux packages

Options

parameter	required	default	choices	comments
name	yes			name of package to install, upgrade or remove.
recurse	no	no	yes no	remove all not explicitly installed dependencies not required by other packages of the package to remove (added in Ansible 1.3)
state	no		installed absent	desired state of the package.
update_cache	no	no	yes no	update the package database first (pacman -Syy).

Examples

# Install package foo
- pacman: name=foo state=installed

# Remove package foo
- pacman: name=foo state=absent

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

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

# Update the package database (pacman -Syy) and install bar (bar will be the updated if a newer version exists)
- pacman: name=bar, state=installed, update_cache=yes