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...
Read MoreIn 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...
Read MorePamac-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...
Read MoreThis 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)...
Read MoreWe have explained in this article that we can improve the build time of applications considerably by using all cores of your processor. This time we are on ArchMerge 6.5.1 and we have added a script to change your makepkg.conf...
Read MoreThe 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...
Read MoreIn 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...
Read MoreIn 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...
Read MoreAn 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...
Read MoreWhen 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...
Read MoreSometimes 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...
Read MoreUPDATE 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 :...
Read Moreconfirmed 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...
Read MorePackages 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...
Read MoreWhen 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...
Read MoreIn 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...
Read MoreAUR 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’...
Read MoreOn 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...
Read MoreWhat 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. 12 sudo pacman-key --initsudo pacman-key --populate...
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