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LATEST ARTICLES
How to install steam on ArcoLinux
The motto of ArcoLinux is Learn, have fun and enjoy. This is the have fun part for sure. We install steam via the terminal. The desktop you install steam on does not matter. You will need a login and password for steam and it will ask a second password so that your...
The Calamares Series – everything you need to know about Calamares
Like always some of the videos contain more information than the title suggests I will add it to the text underneathProblem solving did calamares crash - use gparted use the magical button to show your harddisk use gparted to overcome partitioning issues use wipefs to...
Everything you need to know about pacman
Pacman operation : sync command example description sudo pacman -S sudo pacman -S firefox Installs the package sudo pacman -Sy sudo pacman -Sy Sync the pacman database sudo pacman -Syy sudo pacman -Syy Sync the pacman database with force sudo pacman -Syu sudo pacman...
How to increase the size of your swapfile
Always think out of the box. Do not restrict yourself to just Arch Linux articles or ArcoLinux articles. We use an article for Ubuntu to increase the swap file. Turn off all swap processes sudo swapoff -a Resize the swap (from 512 MB to 8GB) sudo dd if=/dev/zero...
Everything you need to know about flatpak
Flatpak is another way to install software on your ArcoLinux system. You can check out their website here. More importantly what packages can I install with flatpak. https://flathub.org/home Then you use the search to find applications or you browse in the categories....
Everything you need to know about snap
Snapcraft from Canonical wants to provide the app store for Linux. Not all packages come from Arch Linux or AUR. There will always be packages that are (not yet) on AUR. In that case you can see if there is a snap package. Do check out the Arch Linux wiki page to get...
