Clear GNOME Software download cache?

[navras]

How to delete GNOME Software’s downloaded (but not applied) updates?

I was installing on a new computer, connected to Wi-Fi but forgot to turn off GNOME Software’s automatic update. Now it has downloaded a large amount of updates, presumably saved on disk. I don’t plan on using GNOME Software^[1]. How to delete the downloaded updates, so they don’t permanently occupy disk space (not sure if it happens)?

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1. Compare installed packages with Fedora default?

   The gnome-software/PackageKit bug might have been fixed already, and thus not relevant to this question, though not sure if I found the right one. EDIT: Actually I don’t know if it’s fixed. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1733274#c24

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[navras]

How to remove downloaded updates

anything related to updates from Gnome Software (PackageKit backend) will be in /var/cache/PackageKit (this directory sometimes can grow up to several GB). maybe you can find additional flatpak stuff in ~/.cache/gnome-software

Ok so the files are in /var/cache/PackageKit/39/metadata/.../packages/, but is there a command to clear them correctly instead of manually deleting them?

[grumpey (Joe)]

pkcon refresh force -c -1