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Superfast update of ArcoLinux
There are lots of more tutorials about updating and learn in the meantime more about your system. Here we just want to update and get on with our work. These commands have been used one after the other. update - ArcoLinux and Arch Linux packages skel - copy/pasting...
How to fix icons that never change their look whatever theme you choose
Icons that never change their look whatever icon theme you choose are : hardcoded icons. At the time of the launch of Kirk 1st October 2017 there were 5 such applications present. These applications have an absolute path to a picture on your system. This path will...
How to update ArcoLinux – long procedure – learn and analyze
If you want to learn more about your system and keep track of what changed then this procedure is for you.1 - bupskelWill create a backup folder of /etc/skel prior to your updates2 - updateWill download and install all Arch Linux and ArcoLinux packages3 - bupskelWill...
How to switch your Openbox menu to the Openbox Minimal menu
Thanks to the fact that we have created ArcoLinuxB Openbox Minimal we now have a second kind of menu. A minimal one. Once you know your way around the system and know where all the core files are for openbox, you can access them via Thunar and edit them. No need for a...
Use peek to show us what goes wrong on your system
If you want to explain something in order to get help there is this application peek. It will generate an animated gif you can then upload to imgur and put the link in the forum. Working in this manner we can see what is going on on your end....
Fix for One or more PGP signatures could not be verified!
In the meantime we have changed our aur helper to trizen / yay and we will change it probably in future again. Aur helpers have a tendency to come and go. trizen --skipinteg package-to-install yay -S --mflags --skipinteg package-to-installWhen the installation of an...
Fix for updated applications or how to downgrade an application
Pamac-aur (February 2018) You can Downgrade pamac-AURBUT IT IS NOT A MUST February 8th 2018 an update from pamac-aur (6.2.3) comes in and gives us an issue. We do not seem to be able to open preferences in this new version. What makes it more strange is that some of...
Use grsync to backup data from your harddisk to an external harddisk
Grsync is installed by default on ArcoLinux. It is the front-end or gtk gui for rsync, which is a command you can use in the terminal. We show you how to copy data from source to...
How to fix the pkgbuild of vivaldi-codecs-ffmpeg-extra-bin
The developer was kind enough to give us a script that is going to look online what the version is and calculate the md5 sum. That is awesome. The script works with a command pup. ArcoLinux does not have that installed so we need to install it and its dependency go....
Help us to keep the AUR up to date and everyone benefits from it
AUR or Arch Linux User Repository is a huge collection of PKGBUILDS that will install thousands of applications on your system. It will install on anything Arch Linux based.Sometimes packages break.The reason are too diverse to go into.In this particular case the URL...
