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Cleaning up packages?
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this post was submitted on 03 May 2025
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These are just dependencies for your packages. However, Arch doesn't automatically clean the downloaded files after installation so that ends up taking space. On my Dell laptop that has only a 64 GB eMMC, the installation package files took and whopping 5 GB of space, sitting there doing nothing. I nuked them (it didn't remove the installed apps and libs, only the already used package files). Run:
sudo pacman -Scc