diff --git a/contrib/git.nwchem/github_actions_tahoma.txt b/contrib/git.nwchem/github_actions_tahoma.txt
index 5e9adbd5fc..fc4d223d74 100644
--- a/contrib/git.nwchem/github_actions_tahoma.txt
+++ b/contrib/git.nwchem/github_actions_tahoma.txt
@@ -41,29 +41,6 @@ jobs:
         MPIRUN_NPOPT: -n
         NWCHEM_EXECUTABLE: "singularity exec /big_scratch/nwchems.img nwchem "
     steps:
-      - name: pkg cleanup
-        run: |
-          df -h
-          if [[ $(uname -s) == "Linux" ]]; then
-          ubuntu_ver=$(cat /etc/os-release | grep VERSION_ID |cut -d \" -f 2)
-          dpkg-query -Wf '${Installed-Size}\t${Package}\n' | sort -n
-          sudo apt-get purge -y azure-cli || true
-          sudo apt-get purge -y google-cloud-cli microsoft-edge-stable dotnet-sdk-7.0 dotnet-sdk-6.0 google-chrome-stable firefox
-          sudo apt-get purge -y temurin-17-jdk temurin-11-jdk temurin-8-jdk
-          if [[ $ubuntu_ver == "20.04" ]]; then
-          sudo apt-get purge -y llvm-12-dev llvm-11-dev llvm-10-dev
-          sudo apt-get purge -y hhvm
-          sudo apt-get purge -y libgl1-mesa-dri
-          fi
-          if [[ $ubuntu_ver == "22.04" ]]; then
-          sudo apt-get purge -y llvm-13-dev llvm-14-dev llvm-15-dev
-          fi
-          sudo apt-get -y clean
-          sudo apt-get autoremove -y 
-          dpkg-query -Wf '${Installed-Size}\t${Package}\n' | sort -n
-          df -h
-          fi
-        shell: bash
       - name: nwchem version tag
         run: |
           if [[ ${{ matrix.branch }} ==  master ]]; then