You can login via TTY in ArcoLinux – No password required Bare metal = CTRL + ALT + F2 till F6 VirtualBox = right CTRL + F2 till F6 Then you need to update the pacman database with sudo pacman -Syyu Then you can install and remove packages with pacman. With df ...
Samba – arch wiki Quick and easy OPTION 1use the scripts Use the scripts in your home directory provided by arcolinux-bin-git. Run script 1, 2 and 3. Evaluate what happens to your system and change it if needed. This smb.conf is different as the one in the...
You may have seen me struggle with the Arch Linux servers in one of my videos.Time to dive into the application reflector. Read all about it on your own computer.Type reflector –help in the terminal and read more.Servers speed and service all depend on your own...
confirmed IT is a port issue @ home Network @ work no issue The HKP protocol uses 11371/tcp for communication. In order to get the signed keys from the servers (using pacman-key), this port is required for communication. Arch Wiki link quick fix LONG VERSION This is...
We refer you also to our arch-chroot information in this website. https://www.arcolinuxd.com/arch-linux-utils/ There we also cover BTRFS. If you recognize these symptoms then this article can help you : black screen at bootup bootup starts but halts bootup starts but...
31 December 2018 we get an update in : new kernel 4.20 and virtualbox 6.0. The first image is virtualbox before the update. The second image is the content of the update. The third image is virtualbox after the update. Time to do something about this “new...
At this point in time, April 2019, we see a strange behavior on our XFCE desktop. IF you have set your wallpaper with a wallpaper coming from /usr/share/backgrounds, you will see that the background of your lightdm login screen will change to the wallpaper of your...
Only for dual bootersANDonly if intel-ucode or amd-cude is installed Single bootingno amd-ucode or intel-ucode installednothing to do Single booting amd-ucode or intel-ucode installednothing to do Regularly check the bugs website of Arch for progress grub-mkconfig not...
This is just for people, who have a Nvidia card and need the nvidia package. The isos of 19.12.15 have now the possibility to install the nvidia package from within the calamares installer. During our tests every single installation worked fine as the linux kernel and...
Are you using the arcolinux-nemesis script? Are you using the arcogetstarted script? Did you read what the code does? what is the target audience for these scripts JUST ERIK DUBOIS The nemesis is a personalized script for Erik Dubois on the computers of Erik Dubois....
In the video we show you how to find the solution on your own.Use pamac-aur to get more info about the package that reports an error.Are there dependencies missing?Knowing how to find the answer yourself is as important as finding the answer.sudo pacman -S...
In the above image you see a blue switch to turn bluetooth on and off.Recently we can no longer switch it off any more. For me personally that is unimportant as I want it on all the time for my bluetooth headphones.However if you want to be able to switch it off then...
Option 1 update kernel and nvidia packages Go to tty with CTRL + ALT + F2 Login Type in the terminal the following commands updateskelupall then type sudo update-mirrors then again type updateskelupall This means we have updated our computer. The second time we first...
End of January 2019 compton has received a major update from version 4 to 5. We use it on 5 of 12 desktops at the time of writing. awesome bspwm i3 openbox xmonad Needless to say it has a big impact. Compton will provide you the following functionality : shading...
Compare the bottom line of both images.It should never be empty.This tip for calamares (our installer) only concerns people that have older hardware and use MBR to install ArcoLinuxthat use Virtual Box and use MBR to install ArcoLinux.EFI or UEFI people are NOT...
In this particular case the maintainer has provided us with an update script.You need to run update_pkg.sh and then build (makepkg) the package as usual and you will have the latest package of vivaldi-codecs-ffmpeg-extra-bin.Follow the video to see every step of the...
Only if your computer shuts down after 90 seconds some of our computers have it but not all Change one line in one file on your system and reboot and reboot again to see a shutdown time of 30 seconds. /etc/systemd/system.conf Change this line...
THERE IS NO NEED TO INSTALL THE LATEST VERSION Let us assume that having the last version of Sublime-Text-Dev is important to you and you can not wait an other day till the maintainer has updated the PKGBUILD. Your update will come in automatically by that time.We...
During the installation Calamares tries to make contact with a server to know your timezone.Calamares checks your timezone with this code (February 2019).— region: “America” zone: “New_York” # GeoIP settings. Leave commented out to...
At this moment of writing Timeshift (it can be any other package) can not be build. The maintainer says to downgrade vala. You will be able to build the very latest package then. But let us be honest the latest version is sometimes not that important. As long as you...
In this video there are a lot of updates coming in from AUR. One of them has an error in the build and that stops all the updates in its tracks. With pamac-aur we can easily overcome this and in a graphical environment. Make sure you add the AUR to the settings of...
BEFORE AFTER This super tip has always been on the installation page of Arch Linux in Phase 5 and also here.It merits some more attention because it gives you the opportunity to start againas if the nvme, ssd or harddisk were just coming out of the shop.All data...
We have made sure that during the installation of Calamares we configure your system to use all cores. Only relevant if you go to phase 5 and do an Arch Linux installation We have explained in this article that we can improve the build time of applications...
At this point in time I can see just 2 options. Install the package gtk3-mushrooms coming from AUR. Or get rid of the system panel icons altogether. The reasoning is that we can reach those applications if we want to via shortcuts or terminal. We will show you the...
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...
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-install When the...
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...
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....
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...
We have created a new alias – bupskel. In ArcoLinux we put our configurations inside /etc/skel. Everything we put in this folder will be added to your home directory when we create a new iso. Bupskel will copy the content of /etc/skel to a hidden folder in your...
Sometime the maintainers of packages from AUR are just on holiday or sick and the pkgbuild needs to be updated because the sources it uses have been updated but not the validity checksums of the pkgbuild. The normal procedure would be to get into contact with the...
The first picture shows you the samba status before the updates come in.Right terminal says smb service is active and running and is colored in green. Just recently we get an Samba error after updating to version 4.9.2-1. We only see the message when we shutdown and...
error: failed retrieving file ‘extra.db’ from mirror.ams1.nl.leaseweb.net : Operation too slow. Less than 1 bytes/sec transferred the last 10 seconds This is the message we are talking about. You will have a different server from a different country. But...
Arc-gtk-theme source on Arch repo has changed from horst3180 to nicohood. Nico provides us with Openbox support out-of-the-box. Horst did not. We can delete this package for the installation to continue. We do not need it anymore now. Thank you Nico for supporting...
This article and video is here to remind you that ArcoLinux is based on Arch Linux. error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files) libutf8proc: /usr/lib/libutf8proc.so.2 exists in filesystem Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded. If you encounter...
Add the repo and install discord in 30 seconds rather than 30 minutes. Only the people that had discord installed before the update of libc++ will see this error. We are 11th July 2018. You will see no errors if you install discord after that date. Discord is our...
Only the people that had discord installed before the update of libc++ will see this error. We are 11th July 2018. You will see no errors if you install discord after that date. Discord is our communication channel between users and ArcoLinux team members and you are...
We get all the information from the Arch wiki. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/reset_root_password Procedure boot from the ArcoLinux iso mount your root partition change password unmount Commands used in the video lsblk sudo mount /dev/sda2 /mnt sudo passwd...
This solution is interesting now June 2018 but will be void in the future. Updates for either VirtualBox and or the kernel to solve the freezing issue will be coming soon. Updating from kernel 4.16.2 to 4.17.2 gives us issues We suspect the kernel and the Virtualbox...
OPTION 1 – super quick fix YOU NEED TO REMOVE TWO PACKAGES AND INSTALL THEM AGAIN sudo pacman -R package-query pamac-aur trizen package-query trizen pamac-aur OPTION 2 – educational building iso Tuesday 29 May 2018 we get an error when updating...
When we update our engines today we see a message in sublime-text-dev. “update_check”: false If you do not want your sublime-text to check for updates, you need to change a setting. That is explained in the video....
May 2018 we discovered that gnome-software no longer displayed all the images of the software. As of May 2018 you need these two packages to have a working gnome-software. sudo pacman -S gnome-software sudo pacman -S...
We concentrate all our arch-chroot information in this article.https://www.arcolinuxd.com/10-use-the-power-of-arch-chroot-when-your-computer-crashes/ THIS PROCEDURE IS THE SAME ON ALL ARCH BASED SYSTEMS The goal of this article is to show you an alternative way to fix...
We concentrate all our arch-chroot information in this article.https://www.arcolinuxd.com/10-use-the-power-of-arch-chroot-when-your-computer-crashes/ We are working on a motherboard of Asus P8Z77-V LE and have an Nvidia Geforce GTX970. In this tutorial we have seen...
Sometimes if the build is becoming too big you can run out of place. Tmp is too small or similar message shows up. This is the solution and there is no need to reboot. More info on Arch Wiki. mount -o remount,size=4G,noatime /tmp Please provide me with the correct...
THIS APPLIES TO ALL ARCH LINUX BASED DISTRO’S Changing root is commonly done for performing system maintenance on systems where booting and/or logging in is no longer possible. Common examples are: Reinstalling the bootloader. Rebuilding the initramfs image....
Somewhere in March we got an update in that makes our shutdown look different. We see now a lot of strange lines. Nick Petrov went to look for a solution and found a way to hide these messages. Follow his procedure: Edit the file /etc/mkinitcipo.conf with sublime-text...
The AUR is a place where all the pkgbuilds are kept for many interesting applications. They are maintained by you and me so regular users. In this case on 1st April 2018 the maintainer is on holiday. In the meantime the developers from spotify deleted a file on the...
This video is purely for educational reasons. Why? Because in a few days time this problem will not be there anymore. If you update your system and you get a message like error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files) then you have 3 options. wait until a new...
The file /etc/makepkg.conf can be edited so that it will use all available cores when you are building packages coming from the AUR. The more cores, you have, the more you have to gain with these settings. Use “lscpu” to see how many cores your system has....
In this article we have learned that there is a powerful tool installed on ArchMerge i.e. downgrade. With this application you can downgrade an application in an easy way. You can see the picture at the bottom page how to downgrade firefox. BUT when you do a clean...
In the video I am looking at the ffmpeg file while I should have been looking at the ffmpeg-extra file In this article we are going to become a little more technical. It is not necessary to follow along since updates in Arch Linux take about 3-5 days and then your...
An application coming from AUR will always have a PKGBUILD you can read and edit. Normally there is no need for that. Just in some odd occasions you will need to edit it to overcome an installation problem. Jan 2018 conky-lua-archers is a great example how to solve an...
When I installed zoom the other day I had an error message “Duplicate target”. This has happened also with other applications. Pacman finds two pkg.tar.xz files and is confused. When errors occur, go to your /tmp folder and check what is happening. When...
Sometimes you have these harddisks or ssd lying around with data. Then you connect them with your current linux distribution and you can not access them. Often the harddisk does not get mounted automatically. In ArcoLinux it has been set to automount any connected...
UPDATE archlinux-keyring first then the rest If there are keys that give an error when updating, you should first check if there is a new archlinux-keyring. January 2018 it was this key but it can be any other in the future : CEB167EFB5722BD6 If there is no update...
Packages or applications coming from AUR can cause problems. The individuals have to maintain the pkgbuild and need to update it if the source changes, the checksum changes, and so many other variables. January 8, 2018 we had an example with snapd. Upgrading does not...
When making the article about upgrading ArchMerge 6.1 to 6.2 we encountered an error that I had to fix already several times. It deserves to have its own ‘fix article’. How to fix this error message : no space left on device Solution : mount -o...
In firefox you come on websites like youtube where you need to type in your name or a description and the inputbox is nearly unreadable. The fact that it is unreadable might be due to the settings of the dark theme you are using. I am using the Arc theme from...
AUR or Arch User Repository does NOT contain applications. What it contains are recipes how to make applications. Let us call them : ways to build a package or PKGBUILDs. Every maintainer shares with us this ‘recipe’ on a voluntary basis without charge. In...
On November 2017 teamviewer 12 could still be installed on Arch Linux. Soon the 32 bit support will fall away and we will see then what this means for this application that relies on 32 bits packages. After writing a script to install teamviewer you might get this...
What I can not check now anymore is that reinstalling the archlinux-keyring would probably have fixed this without initializing and populating it. Will try that next time. sudo pacman-key –init sudo pacman-key –populate archlinux If necessary this one sudo...
