Arch Linux is a simple, lightweight Linux distribution aimed at keeping things simple.
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Arch Linux - Is it possible to instruct pacman to install certain packages into a specific directory?
I want to install a set of software organized into directories at the root level.
Is there any method in which I can use pacman to install certain packages into a directory of my choosing?
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Help w/ Minimal Notifications? (Pipes?)
I am trying to instate a more minimally-graphic notification scenario in Arch Linux. Specifically, I've taken interest with programs such as dzen2 or conky that allow for more text-based status bars.
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Format disk through rootfs terminal
I've got into a strange situation (because of my own stupidity of course:-)). I kept failing to install Chakra Linux from Live USB, so I was thinking that the reason could be that I created the Live ...
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“Removing leftover files … Unknown user 'uuidd'. [FAIL]” on a fresh Arch Linux installation
I just fresh installed Arch Linux reecently and when booting i can spot a warning:
Removing leftover files [BUSY] [/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/uuidd.conf:1] Unknown user 'uuidd'. [FAIL]
What could this ...
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Configuration for either detecting already running xsession or only auto-logging in once
My goal is an Arch based HTPC which on one tty runs XBMC and on another runs a minimalistic desktop (mainly for web browsing).
I haven't yet started on the XBMC slice of the pie, but at the moment it ...
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TrueCrypt is destoying mdadm volume
I'm setting up a new file server using the same storage configuration as my existing server, but the procedure is failing and i cannot figure out why. my goal is to create a TrueCrypt volume on top ...
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Installing Linux distro on PogoplugPro
I have a PogoplugPro and I want to install a Linux distro on it. However, none of the tutorials I have found cover the model I have:
Model: POGOPLUG PRO
BusyBox v1.16.1 (2010-11-30 12:06:37 PST) ...
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Canon Pixma MG4150 not working on Arch Linux
I’m trying to install a Canon Pixma MG4150 multifunction printer on Arch Linux 3.5.4-1-ARCH x86_64. The device is not working out of the box, I didn’t find anything about this printer on Google for a ...
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Cannot get Realtek r8168 ethernet card up
I've working on Arch Linux and in 99% of time I connect to internet by WLAN but sometimes I need to use ethernet connection, so today I see something strange. My eth0 device is down, and I can't get ...
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Arch Linux and optional dependencies
I installed XChat on an Arch Linux system. Every time I run it, I get the following error message:
Python interface loaded
Perl interface loaded
AutoLoad failed for: /usr/lib/xchat/plugins/tcl.so
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Is it possible to automatically wake from suspend?
Here's my problem:
I have a laptop running Arch that I just keep on at home. It's got a good 4 hour battery life, but sometimes my daughter is playing near where it's kept and ends out pulling the ...
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Steam with Wine having bug with popups
I'm on Arch Linux 64 bits running Steam on a 32 bits Wine and whenever Steam opens a popup, it starts gliding towards the lower right corner, only stopping when I hover it with my mouse and ...
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I ran rm -rf. Need to recover files [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to recover a file just deleted
How to undelete/restore the deleted files in ubuntu linux
I ran $rm -rf on a machine by mistake.
But it wasn't as a super-user, so ...
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Check for updates of packages installed through yaourt
Is there anyway to update package installed with yaourt ? yaourt -Syu seems to do the same as pacman -Syu, which only care about package in official repository.
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Redirecting without color [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Removing control chars (including console codes / colours) from script output
How do I disable all color codes when redirecting to file?
I previously asked how to ...
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Redirecting output to file
I am looking forward to run commands and log their output in a temporary log file to be read later on by different processes.
So, for example: rc.d start ntpd > progress.txt
Returns:
::Daemon ...
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Cannot add new mode in xrandr for external monitor
Today I was trying to connect my second monitor to my notebook. I have:
nvidia graphic card
304.43 drivers [support xrandr 1.2]
archlinux [up-to-date]
awesome wm
xrandr 1.3
My problem is with ...
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Is there an Arch based live persistant distribution?
I'm currently installing Archlinux on my new computer but Windows seems to be installed using UEFI and I'm quite in a rush right now and I don't have time to install Archlinux using EFISTUB or ...
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What does `avahi-dnsconfd` daemon?
I've installed KDE desktop, that depends on avahi. It has two daemons avahi-daemon and avahi-dnsconfd.
In ArchLinux wiki there is no info about avahi-dnsconfd. I've tried Daemon and Avahi pages.
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Can I setup a local webserver using ArchLinux and VirtualBox
I intend to create a local webserver using ArchLinux and VirtualBox for testing purposes.
I just wonder if Arch Linux has what it takes to create a fully functional webserver?
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How to get started writing drivers?
I have a throw-away cheap laptop I'd like to twiddle around, a Thinkpad SL 500.
What bothers me are two leds, the one for wireless connectivity, and the one for hibernation, which don't light up at ...
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Arch modules not loading on start?
I keep getting errors on startup in Arch relating to my rc.conf:
failed to load module "wl"
failed to load module "lib80211"
etc. It lists all the modules in my /etc/rc.conf
This is my full ...
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Urxvt draws lines slowly
I'm using Arch Linux and Urxvt as terminal emulator. When I scroll up/down, text lines gets rendered so slow I can count by top to bottom (heh, 1st line get rendered... ohh, 2nd one! ...). It takes ...
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Cannot connect with 3g modem during Arch installation
I was trying to install Arch Linux with 3g modem. I had previously downloaded usb_modswitch and wvdial and their dependencies. I booted Arch and installed them. Then I copied my Ubuntu's ...
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Is it possible to force chromium show the “window control icons” on the left
I'm not running Gnome or Ubuntu,
But I also want those (minimize, maximze, close) icons to be visible on the left as well,
without touching the source code, is there any way to make it work ?
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Problem starting (launching) Opera and Google Chrome under systemd & KDE4 [closed]
After migrating from sysV to systemd, it has been impossible to launch Opera and Google Chrome (google-chrome-dev); they just hang and close. All other applications seem to work as before. This is on ...
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Arch suspend when I close laptop lid?
I'm in fluxbox on Arch on a Macbook 5,1. New to linux. I'm trying to get Arch to suspend when I close my laptop. Lately I've just been using sudo pm-suspend.
I installed slimlock, and inserted
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Fluxbox battery monitor?
I'm using fluxbox on Arch, and I'm trying to put a battery monitor in the toolbar, next to the time.
gkrellm takes up too much space, and can't be configured in the toolbar, as far as I know.
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Fluxbox time is wrong?
I'm using fluxbox on Arch, and the time is displayed incorrectly in the panel. The time works in XFCE, so I'm not sure why it isn't working in fluxbox.
Is there a way to set the time in fluxbox from ...
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Can't install driver in Arch
I'm using Arch Linux, kernel 3.5.3 on a MacBook. I'm trying to get the keyboard backlight working. I found the driver in the AUR: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=25467, but I'm having trouble ...
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How to give user root permissions?
I just installed Arch. Works great. I created a new user, logged in with it and now I'm trying to install several thing with pacman. But I keep getting the error: error: you cannot perform this ...
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What does the “notify” button in AUR do?
There are three buttons when looking at a package in AUR: "Vote", "Notify" and "Flag Out-of-date". What does the "Notify" button do?
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How to make changes in nvidia-settings tool persistent
I want to disable VSync (it's called "Sync to VBlank" in nvidia-settings) for my nvidia graphics card.
But the configuration only takes effect if I start the nvidia-settings tool. After rebooting ...
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Occasionally kernel panics during boot since 3.3.x with Sandy Bridge
Since kernel 3.3.x there are frequent kernel panics during the boot process. It seems to be a kernel problem since I downgraded to 3.0 and the problems are gone.
The kernel panics happen almost at ...
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How to restore GRUB after windows XP installation?
After I've installed windows xp for dual booting, I need to restore grub of my archlinux installation. I did it a lot of times with windows 7, but this time heavens decided to torture me.
I have ...
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Archbang look on Archlinux
I installed archlinux but I want to get the look and feel of Archbang.
Is there a way to find the config files or scripts for Archbang?
http://bbs.archbang.org/viewtopic.php?id=2501 gives a list of ...
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Problems with Maple 16 GUI on Arch Linux
I have installed Maple 16 (computer algebra system) to the directory /opt/maple16/ and the installation and registration progress is finished succesfully. I am running Arch Linux.
The terminal ...
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Auto connect to the wired net?
I've installed Arch linux, and planned to used it remote and putty my way in.
But it does not seem to start up the interface at boot. I also want a static ip. Is there a config file like ...
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Grub fails after install it on my macbook pro
I'm trying to install Archlinux on my macbook in dual boot mode.
I part the disk that way :
/dev/sda1 -> EFI
/dev/sda2 ->MacOS
/dev/sda3 -> /boot
/dev/sda4 -> /
/dev/sda5 -> /home
As ...
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How to get VIM to display 256 colors properly
I'm trying to get 256 color theme files to work with VIM under xterm.
This is peaksea how it looks for me:
How it should look:
I've tried following the tips on the wiki page to no avail.
set ...
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/home partition
I am facing the following doubt.
I installed Arch time ago with a home separate partition.
My issue is that I need to reinstall the system and I don't have a backup of my /home.
Would a new ...
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VirtualBox with aMule - How to configure network, port forwarding… properly?
for security reasons I am running aMule inside VirtualBox.
Guest and Host systems are Linux (to be more specific Arch 64 distro)
Host system has public ip directly connected to internet (no router)
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Problems copying large files to USB drive
I've got some issues when copying larger files to my USB drive. First of all, my system stopped recognizing my USB drives automatically. I now have to run modprobe usb-storage in order for my USB ...
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system wide SOCKS5 Proxy
I connect to my Server on the internet using ssh -D 3128 user@rootserver.com. If I am right I thereby open a SOCKS v5 Proxy to my Server. Using firefox and FoxyProxy I can now add this to my proxys ...
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Make thunar mount drives into /media rather than /run/media/username?
It's pretty annoying that thunar mounts a drive to /run/media/user_name/XX instead of /media/XX, can I change that behavior ? I'm running latest arch linux
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Mount a folder on a drive in fstab. Move?
I'd like to make a temporary change to my fstab file so that my /home is on another drive. However, I don't want the whole partition to be mounted, but just a folder ("home") on that partition. I'm OK ...
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Start and stop bluetooth service automatically as rfkill switch changes
I would like to start / stop bluetooth service automatically when I turn on / off rfswitch, is that possible ?
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How to use a 64-bit CPU in KVM?
According to tests the Mac Mini 3,1 CPU is 64-bit (grep -q "^flags.*\blm\b" /proc/cpuinfo) and supports Intel virtualization extensions (grep -q "^flags.*\bvmx\b" /proc/cpuinfo). However, after ...
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Archlinux gizmod
I've recently installed Archlinux on my laptop and it's been doing everything I needed except one thing: key bindings.
I wanted to be able to use the volume buttons (including when in a full screen ...
