diff --git a/NAMESPACE b/NAMESPACE
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+++ b/NAMESPACE
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 # Generated by roxygen2: do not edit by hand
 
+export(fetch_available_archives)
 export(fetch_available_packages)
 export(list_depends)
diff --git a/R/fetch_available_archives.R b/R/fetch_available_archives.R
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+++ b/R/fetch_available_archives.R
@@ -0,0 +1,46 @@
+# Requires utils.R
+
+.fetch_available_archives <- function(refetch) {
+  check_pacman_dir()
+  fn <- ".pacman/archive.rds"
+  if (file.exists(fn)) {
+    ts <- as.POSIXct("1970-01-01 00:00:00", tz = "GMT") + as.numeric(Sys.Date() + 1) * 86400
+    if (refetch || (ts < file.mtime(fn))) {
+      unlink(fn)
+    }
+  }
+  if (!file.exists(fn)) {
+    download.file(sprintf("%s/src/contrib/Meta/archive.rds", get_cran_repo()), fn)
+  }
+  con <- gzfile(fn, "rb")
+  on.exit(close(con), add = TRUE)
+  archive <- readRDS(con)
+  archive <-lapply(archive, function(pkg) {
+    packageVersions <- gsub("^([^/]+)/[^_]+_(.+).tar.gz", "\\1%%\\2", rownames(pkg))
+    packageVersions <- strsplit(packageVersions, "%%")
+    packageVersions <- do.call(rbind, packageVersions)
+    pkg[,c("package","version")] <- packageVersions
+    sortOrder <- sort(pkg$version, index.return = TRUE)$ix
+    pkg[sortOrder,c("package", "version")]
+  })
+  archive <- do.call(rbind, archive)
+  rownames(archive) <- 1:nrow(archive)
+  return(archive)
+}
+
+#' Fetch the current (or check the cache) list of packages archives available
+#' for install from the CRAN repositories.
+#'
+#' @param refetch Boolean indicating if the local cache should be invalidated.
+#'
+#' @return A data frame of available package archives and their versions
+#' @export
+fetch_available_archives <- function(refetch = FALSE) {
+  tryCatch(
+    {
+      .fetch_available_archives(refetch)
+    },
+    warning = function(e) list(),
+    error = function(e) list()
+  )
+}
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diff --git a/man/fetch_available_archives.Rd b/man/fetch_available_archives.Rd
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+% Generated by roxygen2: do not edit by hand
+% Please edit documentation in R/fetch_available_archives.R
+\name{fetch_available_archives}
+\alias{fetch_available_archives}
+\title{Fetch the current (or check the cache) list of packages archives available
+for install from the CRAN repositories.}
+\usage{
+fetch_available_archives(refetch = FALSE)
+}
+\arguments{
+\item{refetch}{Boolean indicating if the local cache should be invalidated.}
+}
+\value{
+A data frame of available package archives and their versions
+}
+\description{
+Fetch the current (or check the cache) list of packages archives available
+for install from the CRAN repositories.
+}