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nct

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Registered: 2025-05-21

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remove electron chromium huge files downloaded

I did "yay -S pamac-aur" to install pamac, but then it downloads chromium files, python and electron22 that together has over 50GB for sure. I stopped the terminal process in the middle because of this terrible size, now what should I do to clean that 50GB files? Aware I have Code oss, which uses electron22 I guess, and I tried "pacman -Rs pamac" to remove pamac already.

WorMzy

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Re: remove electron chromium huge files downloaded

Mod note: moving to AUR Issues.

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Lone_Wolf

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From: Netherlands, Europe

Registered: 2005-10-04

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Re: remove electron chromium huge files downloaded

Neither chromium or electron22 are needed during a clean chroot build of libpamac-aur and pamac-aur .

Python is but that's in [core] repo and you should have had it installed anyway .

You should look very hard at why yay wanted to install/download those unneeded ones, but fixing that won't free the space taken.

It's likely that yay/makepkg/pacman didn't clean up properly when you aborted the build (does happen occasionally even if not using any aur helper) .

You will have to perform maintenance .
Make sure to read the whole page (and the pages it links to) thoroughly, but start with 3.8 .
Following that section will help a lot with taking back space.

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clean chroot building not flexible enough ?
Try clean chroot manager by graysky

BS86

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Registered: 2022-11-03

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Re: remove electron chromium huge files downloaded

yay usually downloads to ~/.cache/yay/ - the 50GB could also be located in there.