[Solved]How to remove files from a failed install.

I attempted to install the caffeine package from the AUR using packer. After confirming y to proceed with installation pacman had to pull in quite a few more dependencies than I was expecting. The installation ended up failing because I have package signing set to required. This is all well and good because I don't really think caffeine is worth all the extra dependencies. However, on to my question, I see that these packages (the dependencies) have been downloaded to my system and are in the /var/cache/pacman/pkg directory, is there an easy way to tell pacman to remove just these packages other than going through and removing them one by one? Thanks for the help.
Last edited by Lexworth (2012-01-21 19:19:43)

Thanks to you all. I did read pacman manpage as well as the wiki entries for pacman and pacman Tips. I was just wondering if maybe someone more proficient with the command line knew a easier way to remove the files. I know I could use pacman -Sc or pacman -Scc for clean the entire cache but was hesitant to do so because of the warnings. I think I understand that sudo pacman -R $(pacman -Qtdq) will remove orphan packages however I get an error that no targets are specified. I believe this may be due to the fact that these packages were not installed, just the binaries downloaded. Thanks again for the help. I'll mark this as solved.

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