How much Internet traffic do you need to install archlinux?

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Mike2016-01-05 20:15:36

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Mike, 2016-01-05 20:15:36

There is an image recorded with archlinux. Tell me how many megabytes will be downloaded when installing packages ?.
I think that is not much, I would venture to suggest 500MB.

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Fumoffu, 2016-01-06
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The main package group for installation is "base" - no more than 200 megabytes. Together with "base-devel" comes out 240-250.
In general, pacman will show you how many megabytes will be downloaded during installation before installing a package or group of packages.

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laurvas, 2016-01-05
@laurvas

It directly depends on what packages you need. When installing packages , pacman reports the total size of the packages it downloads and the size they occupy after installation. You can view the description and size of specific packages with the commandpacman -Si pkg1 pkg2 ...