2025-05-14

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Discovered today that my pacman package cache has been... corrupt? I'm not exactly sure. All I know is that I was trying to install aider-chat from AUR and it couldn't find half of the dependencies, which was odd. A quick poke around the AUR page for aider-chat didn't bring up anything obvious so I figured it had to be something local... Looks like those packages come from extra... nope, I have extra enabled... Yup, the packages are in the upstream repo in extra... huh. So, today's nifty command is:

pacman -Scc
This command wipes out your local package cache pacman will pull it all again on the next run. And, well, that next run found over 3GB of updates that were due. 3 GIGABYTES! I thought the system was feeling a little too stable recently...