@LoveBarthalamewPls it should definitely be possible to install it, but it's not available in the AUR at the moment, and of course it would be essentially useless out of the box, because Arch doesn't support the Ubuntu repos or PPAs.
In theory the software center can be modified / rewritten to support other distros, though. There was talk a while back about using it as a frontend for a more unified packaging solution. Not sure what happened there.
Thank you sir! It took me all night and some googling around to get it working but I'm finally in Arch Linux w/ Gnome! I still need to set some things and LEARN TO EFFIN USE IT but I'm on the winning side already. Unfortunately the installation used the home partition of Ubuntu for the fricking arch root but thank god I backed up everything before this.
You put vga=842 to get a larger screen at boot in virtualbox. Is there another vga setting so I may get an even larger screen without messing up my arch install?
@nvanadium I think if you put "vga=xxx" (during the boot process, hit "e" in grub to edit the boot lines, so you don't permanently mess things up) it will let you choose which one you want to boot with.
@nvanadium I haven't actually covered it because it's halfway complicated. If you google for "Arch Linux VirtualBox Guest" there's an article on the Arch Wiki covering it.
@thisweekinlinux Thanks for the reply man. Yeah I read the article but I'm confused a shell since they something to the effect that the instructions don't work with the newest version of VB. I've been Googling for about 6 hours and nothing! All the forums says "refer to the wiki", but the wiki is out of date at the moment.
@thisweekinlinux Never mind, I Finally found it. Never occurred to me it would be in the repository. I'm an idiot. Now to figure out AUR and makepgk. Yet another thing contributing to the twitch in my right eye.
@nvanadium Just go up to the Virtualbox menu, and select "Install Guest Additions". Then in your guest, mount the cd in the terminal (mount /dev/sr0 /mnt), go into your /mnt directory, and run the .run script (./*.run). Make sure you have Xorg installed first.
All of your tutorials are great, keep up the good work!
If you could do a tutorial on networking and filesharing over a home network. that would be awesome.
I run arch, and also a windows 7 machine for uni stuff and my girlfriend has a mac. I have been trying to set up my arch box so some files are assesable over my home network. Ideally i want files from all machines accessible with passwords.
It would be great if you did a tutorial on setting up Arch to share files over a home network
@iSrosh128 I was actually thinking of doing a video showing off some of the extensions available in Gnome Shell, including the ones related to extensions, so yes. :)
I've been using Arch on virtualbox and the package manager Pacman is very very fast =D maybe faster than dpkg and ive been using dpkg and APT since my first ubuntu install and my first ipod jailbreak n_n
I feel like there are 2 miniatures of myself on both of my shoulders, one is saying "install Gentoo!" and the other is saying "install Arch!" and since all i got is a netbook, im gonna go Arch c:
Just wondering why is the software that I install from pacman out of date? Like when I did sudo pacman -S chromium it gave me chromium 5 and when I did pacman -S firefox it gave me Firefox 3.6.8. I'm confused.
Clyde is interesting but wouldn't have it been simpler to just show people how to do yaourt -Syu --aur to update everything? Does clyde brings any significant improvements to yaourt?
@toogreen Clyde offers multithreaded downloading, and in my experience/opinion, fewer prompts. Just tried installing something with Yaourt, and it asked me if I wanted to install packages, then asked if I wanted to install each one individually, then asked if I wanted to edit the pkgbuild, then if I wanted to continue installing. With Clyde, it's generally "Install these apps (Y/n)", edit pkgbuild y/n, then it installs.
Hey, thanks a lot! I just decided to switch to Arch. It was fun doing all this configuration. I think Ubuntu made me lazy. I remember when I first started using Linux, I learned the important commands very well. Now in Arch, I was annoyed that there was no software center :p
Great helpful tutorial! I just got arch on my system. I'm gonna put KDE 4.6 on it, should I install pulse and XOrg like in your Gnome video then install KDE according to the wiki?
@LGN12tv that will probably work appropriately. Just make sure you install the full KDE package, not the minimal one (I think it's just called "kde"). that makes sure you get all the phonon sound stuff as well.
@mollymasta I've got one more Arch tutorial (laptop and wireless issues) to do before I start doing DE/WM install tutorials. If you want to try out Arch with Openbox, you might take a look at Archbang though.
I kind of prefer using pacman and yaourt myself, mostly because I was able to make a script for both that was easily able to install packages, and then send most of the output to a log file using pipe to do it. Clyde however is being a bit fickle, and Is still need to tinker, but honestly, with the script, I don't need clyde in that because if I'm using clyde, its because I want more info. After that I'll run it through yaourt, it outputs way more info. Almost too much xD
@Geewhillikers52 the one I would recommend is called "flashplugin-prerelease", and the version on it is 10.2.161.23-3. It's Adobe's new "Square" Flash player that's in beta.
@H4x0r18 pacman just pulls from the Arch repos. Clyde and yaourt pull from the AUR and from the default repos. Of the two, I generally use Clyde, because it's supposed to download faster, multithreaded, etc.
@worldpeace390 open your /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist file, find the section with mirrors closest to you (From your profile, it says you're in the US, so go to the United States section) and uncomment a few mirrors. In my experience, the first few in the "United States" section have some issues, so start with the 4th or 5th one, and uncomment 5 or 6.
gonna be installing this onto my mac next week hope we get to see one more video on it before then as this is going to be a serious help for my first ever linux install :p
@kristopheraugust not a penny. Bryan made news, and he's involved with JB, so I mentioned them. I've got a lot of respect for those guys. LAS was part of what inspired me to start doing my show. :)
@TheSniperofDeath it never hurts to try new things. you'll almost always learn something, and if you don't like it, it's all free, so you can move around as you wish. :)
driver support is great in Arch, just make sure you check their wiki if you're having troubles.
@TheSniperofDeath I talked about that in part 2 of this series. Basically, you add your user to the "wheel" group, then add the "wheel" group to the sudoers list (run "visudo" as root, uncomment the first line that talks about "wheel")
@jukvamostar yeah, for some reason I didn't even notice the voting system until someone pointed it out earlier. :P so I haven't voted for any of the apps I like yet.
@thisweekinlinux In all seriousness I really should. Been procrastinating this adventure for the longest. Now since you have to download everything from scratch in Arch, does that make it "faster" than other prepackaged distros?
@nvanadium according to benchmarks I've seen, it doesn't, but it definitely feels faster... basically, since you're telling it exactly what you want it to start up, you get what you want, which means you can optimize it to start up and run as fast as you like.
@ZebaSzp I've tried several things, and haven't had any luck getting it to do that yet. Might be worth asking on the Arch Forums or on their IRC channel (or, if you're interested, you could ask on my forum. There are quite a few Arch users there)
@ZebaSzp It's generally a bad idea to upgrade only certain packages while not updating others. It can cause breakage. It's recommended to update all your packages at once. A good example of this is recently, Arch updated to Python 3. Many AUR packages were updated to work with it, but if you only updated the AUR package and didn't upgrade your standard packages, then it probably wouldn't work right.
@doorknob60 Yes, but he wasn't sure if it was ok to update the system via clyde. So I was asking if you could update official packages via pacman and exclusively the AUR ones via clyde. I checked the Arch documentation, and they recommend to do "clyde -Syua", anyways.
BTW in another video in this series there might be some usage of talking about the archlinuxfr repo. It contains lots of prebuild packages from the AUR including Flash Square and yaourt and loads of others.
@egadw I've heard over and over again not to use the archlinuxfr repo (I used it to install yaourt originally, and people kept telling me to immediately pull it out of my system after installing yaourt). Definitely might be worth a mention.
@thisweekinlinux Funny... The Danish Arch community seems to be fund of it and the local admin here(on the Danish Arch Linux forum) is apt to recommend it.. :P
@thisweekinlinux I think one of the reasons not to use it is due to it being binary builds and I can't find any mentions of the package builds on archlinux.fr(and you can get the arch linux repos package builds on archlinux. org/ packages...)
@SkyxN3t not a clue, honestly, I'd say people have issues with it for the same reason @egadw mentioned. It's all binary builds with no pkgbuilds given, so you're not 100% sure what you're getting.
@SkyxN3t I do use Kazam, but I pulled it manually from bzr. someone (probably me, hehe) needs to update the AUR Pkgbuild for Kazam-bzr, because Andrew (the creator of Kazam) changed the URL on launchpad a little while back.
Sorry to keep bombarding you with questions but since you are an expert in arch I want to ask you whether you know if pacman supports wild cards? For example, in Fedora/yumex, you can do something like this:
yum install python*
And this will download all the packages in the repository that start with the word python. You can also do something like this: yum install *python* etc...
That did download kazam-bzr but when I run it I get:
[u@h bin]$ ./kazam
INFO:root:Running locally
Traceback (most recent call last): File "./kazam", line 69, in from kazam.app import KazamApp File "/home/user/Downloads/kazam/kazam/app. py", line 38, in from kazam.frontend.indicator import KazamIndicator File "/home/user/Downloads/kazam/kazam/frontend/indicator. py", line 28, in import keybinder
Asking arch forums they told me that Kazam uses Python 2 and Archlinux comes with Paython 3 installed, did you experience something like that while running kazam?
@SkyxN3t ooh, I remember now. I did have to change one thing to python2. If you go into the kazam/bin directory, open the "kazam" file with a text editor, and change the first line where it says "python" to "python2".
After changing to python2, the program starts, when I hit "Record" the program starts recording but when I save the file it's 0 bytes of size, it's as if it didn't record anything.
Terminal:
Error while opening encoder for output stream #0.0 - maybe incorrect parameters such as bit_rate, rate, width or height
Did you face a similar problem?
By the way, isn't Kazam basically a nice graphical frontend to ffmpeg ?
@SkyxN3t hrm, I haven't experienced that. You're absolutely right, though, Kazam is just a pretty GUI on top of ffmpeg. If you open kazam from the terminal, you should see the exact command it's going to run. Might try taking that ffmpeg command and see if it works for you.
@egadw I believe it installed when I attempted to install synapse on Arch. Not sure what happened the first time, but I just attempted an install again, and it seems like it went through. :)
@thisweekinlinux Synapse had a bug that broke it using the parameter ALL while searching. It got fixed upstream and should work now(there were some problems with the deps mirrors and such as well, they got fixed too).
@thisweekinlinux hmm.. Works for me, perhaps try uninstall all of the deps that came with it(not dbus and the like...). If the build of gtkhotkey is the old it still installs the 32 bit version I think..
@Saliva4Ever do you know what sort of wireless adapter you have? Are you certain you have an IP address? (right click the network manager icon, where you connected to the wireless network, go to "Connection Information". It should have a load of info there)
@thisweekinlinux Hey, i have found a strange bug in ubuntu. When i initiate a pppoe connection to the wlan (sudo pppoeconf) in ubuntu, it disables the wifi in the registry...It says devide not managed when you reboot. The walk-around is to edit the registry (gksu gedit /etc/network/interfaces) and the first time put # in front of all lines with "lo". On reboot do the auto-connect on startup and then modify it to have a # in front of all lines with wlan0, of course without it. It will autoconnect
Ah yes Feeling more at home with arch. The community is great too, very helpfull people in the #archlinux channel at freenode. They helped out with some problems i was having with package-query but its all worked out now. Thanks for the vid!
Hey, another great tutorial. After seeing your tutorials/review on Arch, and Linux4UnMe's vids who also loves his Arch, I finally tried Arch recently and have been using it all week and I love it!
I'm usually a mad distro hopper but this feels like something I can use primarily and be happy with it, might just occasionally try others out of curiousity. Everything is working surprisingly well..only thing I cant get to work yet is the boot up splash screen with Splashy, but I will I'm sure
@MicroHelper Congrats on the partnership! I don't know if thumbing up really helps with revenue, but if a video gets enough, it might end up on the "highest rated" chart for the day/week. :)
First let me say that I am a big fan, after the Linux Action Show, this is the best Linux news show on youtube. Now, my question is how hard is it for someone who uses ubuntu casually (no terminal use) to use arch? I main windows 7 for the time being so I'm not worried about losing anything, I just want to know the learning curb needed.
@Nekryu thanks so much! It's always an honor to be mentioned in the same breath with those guys.
For a casual Ubuntu user with no terminal experience, Arch is a bit daunting. Parts 1 and 2 of this tutorial walk through the initial installation, up to the point where you're running Gnome. They're available in a playlist on my channel, if you're interested in seeing the process.
@Nekryu i would say give it a shot, i used ubuntu and sabayon linux for about a year before i tried arch linux. They are the most well documented distribution I have ever encountered, follow the beginners guide in the wiki and you should be fine.
ive heard that yaourt is getting pushed out by packer, yaourt hasnt been updated in a while (to my knowledge). Packer works the same exact way as yaourt, without some of the pretty colors, but i think you can turn that on, just too lazy
It's not like arch linux is hard to install or understand but i've tried twice to bring the gdm automatically upon bot in a vm, and it didn't work, i'll try again sometime soon.
@jimmybrite I think you may have forgotton to add "gdm" (without quotes) to the daemons section, like Jordan said. sudo (if you use sudo yet) nano /etc/rc.conf
scroll to bottom, you will see something in parentheses, should have crond as well as some other stuff. I usually add gdm to the end, but I don't think it matters. ctrl+x , y , enter. your done.
@Mkbu I'm curious to try out the Mageia Alpha as well. :)
I agree though, my channel needs more publicity. If you have any ideas, I'm always open to suggestion. I'll admit, I haven't done much of anything publicity-wise, aside from posting to Twitter/Facebook.
@TheSniperofDeath lightweight, you get only what you ask for, the packages are very up-to-date, you shouldn't have to reinstall every 6 months, and the packages are "vanilla", meaning they're as close to what the software creator intended them to be as possible.
@TheSniperofDeath it does indeed. you just have to search for whatever hardware you're using in the Arch Wiki, and you can generally find info on it there.
You should do one on Gentoo, or maybe FreeBSD/DesktopBSD? I was completely unaware of AUR as far as Arch goes, and honestly, the whole concept reminds me of Gentoo.. it reeks of it, actually.
Did you burn the CD at the slowest speed possible for your drive? Did you check the md5sum of the ISO you downloaded? (just listing things that could possibly be wrong if it won't boot the disc)
@EagerEmu really? Awesome! I still hop on my laptop, but I need to stay up to date on lots of different Linux distros, but my desktop is effectively Arch for the foreseeable future. :)
@sneekylinux thanks. :) If you do decide to try out Arch, feel free to ask if you have any issues. It really doesn't take that long to get used to, and it's lightning fast.
@origamiartist2 I've been meaning to for a long time, but I was waiting to speak to one of the Arch devs before doing it. I never heard back from him again, so I took his suggestion and figured out how to do it on my own (I normally wouldn't have gone into the manual install process)
Awesome tutorial!
MrAlexanderHoff 3 weeks ago
pleas do a lesson on arch iso and how to change kde defualt settings.
like change them for all users on the computer so when i add a new user i see a custom desktop and user interface.
nickthetechguy1 4 months ago
Thank you I just got google-talk working
josephseven 4 months ago
The AUR is awesome. It makes it so much easier to install stuff than in Ubuntu, where you have to add a bunch of PPAs.
Deliciousfruit233 5 months ago
can u get the ubuntu software center on arch? :P
LoveBarthalamewPls 7 months ago
@LoveBarthalamewPls it should definitely be possible to install it, but it's not available in the AUR at the moment, and of course it would be essentially useless out of the box, because Arch doesn't support the Ubuntu repos or PPAs.
In theory the software center can be modified / rewritten to support other distros, though. There was talk a while back about using it as a frontend for a more unified packaging solution. Not sure what happened there.
thisweekinlinux 7 months ago
Thank you sir! It took me all night and some googling around to get it working but I'm finally in Arch Linux w/ Gnome! I still need to set some things and LEARN TO EFFIN USE IT but I'm on the winning side already. Unfortunately the installation used the home partition of Ubuntu for the fricking arch root but thank god I backed up everything before this.
Nikotiini69 8 months ago
You game MC? On which server? ;D
MeAndLinux 8 months ago
Thanks, I'm just about to wipe Ubuntu and install Arch!
And I was just wondering about AUR!
JacobLukeWood 8 months ago
What exactly does "Pacman-Color" do? What will it change?
theif519 8 months ago
@theif519 I believe it just adds colors to the pacman output.
thisweekinlinux 8 months ago
You put vga=842 to get a larger screen at boot in virtualbox. Is there another vga setting so I may get an even larger screen without messing up my arch install?
nvanadium 9 months ago
@nvanadium I think if you put "vga=xxx" (during the boot process, hit "e" in grub to edit the boot lines, so you don't permanently mess things up) it will let you choose which one you want to boot with.
thisweekinlinux 9 months ago
I'm not sure if you covered it, but how do you install virtualbox guest addons for as Arch guest?
nvanadium 9 months ago
@nvanadium I haven't actually covered it because it's halfway complicated. If you google for "Arch Linux VirtualBox Guest" there's an article on the Arch Wiki covering it.
thisweekinlinux 9 months ago
@thisweekinlinux Thanks for the reply man. Yeah I read the article but I'm confused a shell since they something to the effect that the instructions don't work with the newest version of VB. I've been Googling for about 6 hours and nothing! All the forums says "refer to the wiki", but the wiki is out of date at the moment.
nvanadium 9 months ago
@thisweekinlinux Never mind, I Finally found it. Never occurred to me it would be in the repository. I'm an idiot. Now to figure out AUR and makepgk. Yet another thing contributing to the twitch in my right eye.
nvanadium 9 months ago
@nvanadium Just go up to the Virtualbox menu, and select "Install Guest Additions". Then in your guest, mount the cd in the terminal (mount /dev/sr0 /mnt), go into your /mnt directory, and run the .run script (./*.run). Make sure you have Xorg installed first.
Deliciousfruit233 7 months ago
All of your tutorials are great, keep up the good work!
If you could do a tutorial on networking and filesharing over a home network. that would be awesome.
I run arch, and also a windows 7 machine for uni stuff and my girlfriend has a mac. I have been trying to set up my arch box so some files are assesable over my home network. Ideally i want files from all machines accessible with passwords.
It would be great if you did a tutorial on setting up Arch to share files over a home network
marno11 9 months ago
I followed your tutorial on how to install Arch with reading from the Arch wiki. I downloaded KDE instead. Very nice! Thank you so much!
omnimanu 9 months ago
Can you make a video on how to change the theme in gnome 3 in arch linux?
iSrosh128 9 months ago
@iSrosh128 I was actually thinking of doing a video showing off some of the extensions available in Gnome Shell, including the ones related to extensions, so yes. :)
thisweekinlinux 9 months ago
@thisweekinlinux thanks jordon
iSrosh128 9 months ago
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iSrosh128 9 months ago
I've been using Arch on virtualbox and the package manager Pacman is very very fast =D maybe faster than dpkg and ive been using dpkg and APT since my first ubuntu install and my first ipod jailbreak n_n
91jmda 10 months ago
Hey Jordan which theme do you use for arch and do you have the gnome interface
iSrosh128 10 months ago
@iSrosh128 the theme I normally use is the shiki-brave theme (in the shiki-colors package in the AUR), and I do run Gnome.
thisweekinlinux 10 months ago
@thisweekinlinux thanks next i install arch on my netbook i'll install this theme Thanks again
iSrosh128 10 months ago
I feel like there are 2 miniatures of myself on both of my shoulders, one is saying "install Gentoo!" and the other is saying "install Arch!" and since all i got is a netbook, im gonna go Arch c:
91jmda 10 months ago
Is it possible to make a tutorial of gnome to be replace it step by step lxde?
Dareboy58 10 months ago
Just wondering why is the software that I install from pacman out of date? Like when I did sudo pacman -S chromium it gave me chromium 5 and when I did pacman -S firefox it gave me Firefox 3.6.8. I'm confused.
Drpooper100 11 months ago
@Drpooper100 Check the mirror you're pulling from. I've seen several that are out of date in the past.
thisweekinlinux 11 months ago
Clyde is interesting but wouldn't have it been simpler to just show people how to do yaourt -Syu --aur to update everything? Does clyde brings any significant improvements to yaourt?
toogreen 1 year ago
@toogreen Clyde offers multithreaded downloading, and in my experience/opinion, fewer prompts. Just tried installing something with Yaourt, and it asked me if I wanted to install packages, then asked if I wanted to install each one individually, then asked if I wanted to edit the pkgbuild, then if I wanted to continue installing. With Clyde, it's generally "Install these apps (Y/n)", edit pkgbuild y/n, then it installs.
thisweekinlinux 11 months ago
had to use the AUR to get ' package-query ' before i could makepkg yaourt, it wasn't able to resolve the dependency by itself
vstuen 1 year ago
Hey, thanks a lot! I just decided to switch to Arch. It was fun doing all this configuration. I think Ubuntu made me lazy. I remember when I first started using Linux, I learned the important commands very well. Now in Arch, I was annoyed that there was no software center :p
korwinblue 1 year ago
@thisweekinlinux I got it up and running! The only issues i'm having are that chromium won't set as a default browser and flash won't work.
LGN12tv 1 year ago
@LGN12tv Chromium for me doesn't even want to start. I'm in KDE tho.
Rokalacs 1 year ago
Great helpful tutorial! I just got arch on my system. I'm gonna put KDE 4.6 on it, should I install pulse and XOrg like in your Gnome video then install KDE according to the wiki?
LGN12tv 1 year ago
@LGN12tv that will probably work appropriately. Just make sure you install the full KDE package, not the minimal one (I think it's just called "kde"). that makes sure you get all the phonon sound stuff as well.
thisweekinlinux 1 year ago
@thisweekinlinux when does the arch openbox tutorial ?
mollymasta 1 year ago
@mollymasta I've got one more Arch tutorial (laptop and wireless issues) to do before I start doing DE/WM install tutorials. If you want to try out Arch with Openbox, you might take a look at Archbang though.
thisweekinlinux 1 year ago
@thisweekinlinux yea no problem i already found out about archbang but that isn't fun if al the stuff is already done
mollymasta 1 year ago
Which desktop environment are you using?
frercv 1 year ago
@frercv Gnome. I've tried KDE, LXDE, and Fluxbox (at least) and Gnome just feels like home.
thisweekinlinux 1 year ago
@thisweekinlinux I am asking which are you using currently in your system
frercv 1 year ago
@frercv I always use Gnome.
thisweekinlinux 1 year ago
I kind of prefer using pacman and yaourt myself, mostly because I was able to make a script for both that was easily able to install packages, and then send most of the output to a log file using pipe to do it. Clyde however is being a bit fickle, and Is still need to tinker, but honestly, with the script, I don't need clyde in that because if I'm using clyde, its because I want more info. After that I'll run it through yaourt, it outputs way more info. Almost too much xD
hackersarchangel 1 year ago
@hackersarchangel did you end up submitting your script to the AUR?
thisweekinlinux 1 year ago
so which flash package isn't the 32-bit in a 64-bit wrapper
Geewhillikers52 1 year ago
@Geewhillikers52 the one I would recommend is called "flashplugin-prerelease", and the version on it is 10.2.161.23-3. It's Adobe's new "Square" Flash player that's in beta.
thisweekinlinux 1 year ago
What is better clyde, yaourt, or pacman? I'm confused..does it just have more packages to choose from or what?
H4x0r18 1 year ago
@H4x0r18 pacman just pulls from the Arch repos. Clyde and yaourt pull from the AUR and from the default repos. Of the two, I generally use Clyde, because it's supposed to download faster, multithreaded, etc.
thisweekinlinux 1 year ago
its not helping how to select the servers in the setup
worldpeace390 1 year ago
@worldpeace390 open your /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist file, find the section with mirrors closest to you (From your profile, it says you're in the US, so go to the United States section) and uncomment a few mirrors. In my experience, the first few in the "United States" section have some issues, so start with the 4th or 5th one, and uncomment 5 or 6.
thisweekinlinux 1 year ago
gonna be installing this onto my mac next week hope we get to see one more video on it before then as this is going to be a serious help for my first ever linux install :p
markmoore1985 1 year ago
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sleepee11 1 year ago
@kristopheraugust not a penny. Bryan made news, and he's involved with JB, so I mentioned them. I've got a lot of respect for those guys. LAS was part of what inspired me to start doing my show. :)
thisweekinlinux 1 year ago
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SkyxN3t 1 year ago
I think i am going to try since I learned Ubuntu and Red Hat Linux.. If there isn't sufficient drivers I am giving up XD
TheSniperofDeath 1 year ago 2
@TheSniperofDeath it never hurts to try new things. you'll almost always learn something, and if you don't like it, it's all free, so you can move around as you wish. :)
driver support is great in Arch, just make sure you check their wiki if you're having troubles.
thisweekinlinux 1 year ago
@thisweekinlinux Quick question: how do you make account that can do everything but has to put a password for "sudo"(superroot is dangerous) ?
TheSniperofDeath 1 year ago
@TheSniperofDeath I talked about that in part 2 of this series. Basically, you add your user to the "wheel" group, then add the "wheel" group to the sudoers list (run "visudo" as root, uncomment the first line that talks about "wheel")
thisweekinlinux 1 year ago
@thisweekinlinux you type fast XD.
TheSniperofDeath 1 year ago
@TheSniperofDeath I do indeed.
thisweekinlinux 1 year ago
I used packer after yaourt, and it is much faster, but that clyde, i did not use, I shall try it.
U should mention to vote for pacages, after they install it.
jukvamostar 1 year ago
@jukvamostar yeah, for some reason I didn't even notice the voting system until someone pointed it out earlier. :P so I haven't voted for any of the apps I like yet.
thisweekinlinux 1 year ago
Thanks for doing this. Maybe now I can finally install Arch...ummm... someday. Who am I kidding, I'm hopeless. :-(
nvanadium 1 year ago
@nvanadium no, do it now! :P (or not, entirely up to you)
thisweekinlinux 1 year ago
@thisweekinlinux In all seriousness I really should. Been procrastinating this adventure for the longest. Now since you have to download everything from scratch in Arch, does that make it "faster" than other prepackaged distros?
nvanadium 1 year ago
@nvanadium according to benchmarks I've seen, it doesn't, but it definitely feels faster... basically, since you're telling it exactly what you want it to start up, you get what you want, which means you can optimize it to start up and run as fast as you like.
thisweekinlinux 1 year ago
What are the numbers in brackets if you search for a package in clyde?
klemen918 1 year ago
@klemen918 that is the number of votes a package has received. Sort of like giving thumbs up here on YouTube. :)
thisweekinlinux 1 year ago
Is there a command to update the AUR packages with clyde without making a full system upgrade?
ZebaSzp 1 year ago
@ZebaSzp I've tried several things, and haven't had any luck getting it to do that yet. Might be worth asking on the Arch Forums or on their IRC channel (or, if you're interested, you could ask on my forum. There are quite a few Arch users there)
thisweekinlinux 1 year ago
@ZebaSzp It's generally a bad idea to upgrade only certain packages while not updating others. It can cause breakage. It's recommended to update all your packages at once. A good example of this is recently, Arch updated to Python 3. Many AUR packages were updated to work with it, but if you only updated the AUR package and didn't upgrade your standard packages, then it probably wouldn't work right.
doorknob60 1 year ago
@doorknob60 Yes, but he wasn't sure if it was ok to update the system via clyde. So I was asking if you could update official packages via pacman and exclusively the AUR ones via clyde. I checked the Arch documentation, and they recommend to do "clyde -Syua", anyways.
ZebaSzp 1 year ago
@thisweekinlinux maybe you should have mentioned that nobody does control these packages and it would be no problem to get viruses this way.
Exdozolie 1 year ago
@Exdozolie you're right, I probably should have. I'll add a note to the video description. Thanks.
thisweekinlinux 1 year ago
@Exdozolie Isn't that why you should be running anti virus?
astrialkil 6 months ago
@astrialkil Who runs antivirus on Linux? I don't, and I never had a problem. But I have never seen a bad AUR-Package
Exdozolie 6 months ago
BTW in another video in this series there might be some usage of talking about the archlinuxfr repo. It contains lots of prebuild packages from the AUR including Flash Square and yaourt and loads of others.
egadw 1 year ago
@egadw I've heard over and over again not to use the archlinuxfr repo (I used it to install yaourt originally, and people kept telling me to immediately pull it out of my system after installing yaourt). Definitely might be worth a mention.
thisweekinlinux 1 year ago
@thisweekinlinux Funny... The Danish Arch community seems to be fund of it and the local admin here(on the Danish Arch Linux forum) is apt to recommend it.. :P
egadw 1 year ago
@egadw I'll have to give it another shot. I only tried yaourt from it before.
thisweekinlinux 1 year ago
@thisweekinlinux I think one of the reasons not to use it is due to it being binary builds and I can't find any mentions of the package builds on archlinux.fr(and you can get the arch linux repos package builds on archlinux. org/ packages...)
egadw 1 year ago
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0xTRX007 1 year ago
@thisweekinlinux
Why is "archlinuxfr" bad/dangerous?
SkyxN3t 1 year ago
@SkyxN3t not a clue, honestly, I'd say people have issues with it for the same reason @egadw mentioned. It's all binary builds with no pkgbuilds given, so you're not 100% sure what you're getting.
thisweekinlinux 1 year ago
@thisweekinlinux
Ok thanks. One question though. Do you use "Kazam"?
I tried installing it from the AUR using [yaourt -S kazam-bzr] but I get the following error message:
bzr: ERROR: Invalid url supplied to transport: "bzr+ssh://bazaar.launchpad. net/+branch/kazam/trunk": no supported schemes Aborting...
==> ERROR: Makepkg was unable to build kazam-bzr.
SkyxN3t 1 year ago
@SkyxN3t I do use Kazam, but I pulled it manually from bzr. someone (probably me, hehe) needs to update the AUR Pkgbuild for Kazam-bzr, because Andrew (the creator of Kazam) changed the URL on launchpad a little while back.
thisweekinlinux 1 year ago
@thisweekinlinux
How do you update the URL to make it work?
In PKGBUILD it says the following:
url = " ht tps :/ / launchpad. net/kazam"
What exactly did change?
Also where did you download Kazam and how did you install it?
SkyxN3t 1 year ago
@SkyxN3t I think it's because they've moved kazam from that location to two separate ones (daily and stable).
When I got it, I just installed bzr, went to a directory, and did "bzr branch lp:kazam"
thisweekinlinux 1 year ago
@thisweekinlinux
Thanks that did the trick. : )
Sorry to keep bombarding you with questions but since you are an expert in arch I want to ask you whether you know if pacman supports wild cards? For example, in Fedora/yumex, you can do something like this:
yum install python*
And this will download all the packages in the repository that start with the word python. You can also do something like this: yum install *python* etc...
SkyxN3t 1 year ago
@SkyxN3t that one I'm not sure about. I just tried with "guvcvie*", and it didn't work.
thisweekinlinux 1 year ago
@thisweekinlinux
That did download kazam-bzr but when I run it I get:
[u@h bin]$ ./kazam
INFO:root:Running locally
Traceback (most recent call last): File "./kazam", line 69, in from kazam.app import KazamApp File "/home/user/Downloads/kazam/kazam/app. py", line 38, in from kazam.frontend.indicator import KazamIndicator File "/home/user/Downloads/kazam/kazam/frontend/indicator. py", line 28, in import keybinder
ImportError: No module named keybinder
SkyxN3t 1 year ago
@thisweekinlinux
Asking arch forums they told me that Kazam uses Python 2 and Archlinux comes with Paython 3 installed, did you experience something like that while running kazam?
SkyxN3t 1 year ago
@SkyxN3t ooh, I remember now. I did have to change one thing to python2. If you go into the kazam/bin directory, open the "kazam" file with a text editor, and change the first line where it says "python" to "python2".
thisweekinlinux 1 year ago
@thisweekinlinux
After changing to python2, the program starts, when I hit "Record" the program starts recording but when I save the file it's 0 bytes of size, it's as if it didn't record anything.
Terminal:
Error while opening encoder for output stream #0.0 - maybe incorrect parameters such as bit_rate, rate, width or height
Did you face a similar problem?
By the way, isn't Kazam basically a nice graphical frontend to ffmpeg ?
SkyxN3t 1 year ago
@SkyxN3t hrm, I haven't experienced that. You're absolutely right, though, Kazam is just a pretty GUI on top of ffmpeg. If you open kazam from the terminal, you should see the exact command it's going to run. Might try taking that ffmpeg command and see if it works for you.
thisweekinlinux 1 year ago
gtkhotkey?
Are you using Synapse?
egadw 1 year ago
@egadw I believe it installed when I attempted to install synapse on Arch. Not sure what happened the first time, but I just attempted an install again, and it seems like it went through. :)
thisweekinlinux 1 year ago
@thisweekinlinux Synapse had a bug that broke it using the parameter ALL while searching. It got fixed upstream and should work now(there were some problems with the deps mirrors and such as well, they got fixed too).
egadw 1 year ago
@egadw just tried running it. it appears to start, but crashes if I do anything. perhaps I just don't have it set up correctly
thisweekinlinux 1 year ago
@thisweekinlinux Did you reinstall it? the old gtkhotkey package didn't have the x64 remark in it and would break it, if you didn't enter it.
egadw 1 year ago
@egadw just tried updating it. Still crashes if I type anything. I'm not at home at the moment, so it's difficult to test (using VNC)
thisweekinlinux 1 year ago
@thisweekinlinux hmm.. Works for me, perhaps try uninstall all of the deps that came with it(not dbus and the like...). If the build of gtkhotkey is the old it still installs the 32 bit version I think..
egadw 1 year ago
@TheLinuxsensei it would be an honor if that were the case. :P
I haven't tried PCLOS OpenBox. Might have to give it a shot. Thanks!
thisweekinlinux 1 year ago
i hate ubuntu
when i have installed all driver for my wlan it says i be conect with wlan but when i opened firefox i can't concect.
:(
Saliva4Ever 1 year ago
@Saliva4Ever do you know what sort of wireless adapter you have? Are you certain you have an IP address? (right click the network manager icon, where you connected to the wireless network, go to "Connection Information". It should have a load of info there)
thisweekinlinux 1 year ago
@thisweekinlinux Hey, i have found a strange bug in ubuntu. When i initiate a pppoe connection to the wlan (sudo pppoeconf) in ubuntu, it disables the wifi in the registry...It says devide not managed when you reboot. The walk-around is to edit the registry (gksu gedit /etc/network/interfaces) and the first time put # in front of all lines with "lo". On reboot do the auto-connect on startup and then modify it to have a # in front of all lines with wlan0, of course without it. It will autoconnect
koolguy889 1 year ago
@koolguy889 that's a bit odd, yes. Have you reported it on Launchpad?
thisweekinlinux 1 year ago
@thisweekinlinux Nope, i will now :)
koolguy889 1 year ago
Nice one, although isnt yaourt not supported anymore? I thought clyde was the main one now...i may be mistaken
lindsaymobil22 1 year ago
@lindsaymobil22 not sure. I know when they switched the AUR from h ttp to h ttp s, yaourt was updated relatively quickly.
thisweekinlinux 1 year ago
@thisweekinlinux It was the first to be updated to it, clyde and bauerbill took several hours :P..
egadw 1 year ago
@egadw yeah, that was a rough couple of hours. :P
thisweekinlinux 1 year ago
@thisweekinlinux It was just to point out the French devs was squick to get the update out ^^
egadw 1 year ago
Ah yes Feeling more at home with arch. The community is great too, very helpfull people in the #archlinux channel at freenode. They helped out with some problems i was having with package-query but its all worked out now. Thanks for the vid!
dynetrax 1 year ago
@dynetrax I'm glad you had a good experience in the freenode channel! I've heard a lot of mixed reviews there.
thisweekinlinux 1 year ago
Hey, another great tutorial. After seeing your tutorials/review on Arch, and Linux4UnMe's vids who also loves his Arch, I finally tried Arch recently and have been using it all week and I love it!
I'm usually a mad distro hopper but this feels like something I can use primarily and be happy with it, might just occasionally try others out of curiousity. Everything is working surprisingly well..only thing I cant get to work yet is the boot up splash screen with Splashy, but I will I'm sure
ElderSnake90 1 year ago
@ElderSnake90 awesome! I'm glad you're enjoying Arch. I'm definitely pleased with it on my desktop.
I haven't tried a boot-up splash screen yet. I generally don't see the boot process terribly often.
thisweekinlinux 1 year ago
Great Video, not a fan of that OS. Ubuntu is what I'm sticking with.
Btw, I'm always thumbing up your videos so you can get more money on YouTube
(I'm Youtube Partner as well x)
MicroHelper 1 year ago
@MicroHelper Congrats on the partnership! I don't know if thumbing up really helps with revenue, but if a video gets enough, it might end up on the "highest rated" chart for the day/week. :)
thisweekinlinux 1 year ago
FINALLY GOT ARCH UP AND RUNNING!
Thanks to highclasshole from twil.com and Jordan!
any5dollarfootlong 1 year ago
First let me say that I am a big fan, after the Linux Action Show, this is the best Linux news show on youtube. Now, my question is how hard is it for someone who uses ubuntu casually (no terminal use) to use arch? I main windows 7 for the time being so I'm not worried about losing anything, I just want to know the learning curb needed.
Nekryu 1 year ago
@Nekryu thanks so much! It's always an honor to be mentioned in the same breath with those guys.
For a casual Ubuntu user with no terminal experience, Arch is a bit daunting. Parts 1 and 2 of this tutorial walk through the initial installation, up to the point where you're running Gnome. They're available in a playlist on my channel, if you're interested in seeing the process.
thisweekinlinux 1 year ago
@thisweekinlinux this is why I've not yet tried Arch despite the rave reviews of it. maybe in the future and in a virtual box to get confidence
experimental0000 1 year ago
@Nekryu i would say give it a shot, i used ubuntu and sabayon linux for about a year before i tried arch linux. They are the most well documented distribution I have ever encountered, follow the beginners guide in the wiki and you should be fine.
spikespeigel 1 year ago
AUR sounds more practcal than a bunch of PPAs, I must say.
Awesome videos. Arch sounds cool, I might try it out. I have to do a clean install of my whole PC soon, anyways.
ZebaSzp 1 year ago
@ZebaSzp I agree, and the fact that anyone can contribute to it (all in the same place) makes it awesome.
I have to say, if you're planning to try out Arch, I would recommend trying it in a virtual machine first.
thisweekinlinux 1 year ago
ive heard that yaourt is getting pushed out by packer, yaourt hasnt been updated in a while (to my knowledge). Packer works the same exact way as yaourt, without some of the pretty colors, but i think you can turn that on, just too lazy
nugz1212 1 year ago
@nugz1212 I generally use clyde myself, but I figured yaourt was a good place to start when talking about AUR helpers. :)
thisweekinlinux 1 year ago
@thisweekinlinux true, gj with the video btw
nugz1212 1 year ago
@nugz1212 thanks, man! :)
thisweekinlinux 1 year ago
It's not like arch linux is hard to install or understand but i've tried twice to bring the gdm automatically upon bot in a vm, and it didn't work, i'll try again sometime soon.
jimmybrite 1 year ago
@jimmybrite did you add it to the end of the DAEMONS line in rc.conf?
thisweekinlinux 1 year ago
@jimmybrite I think you may have forgotton to add "gdm" (without quotes) to the daemons section, like Jordan said. sudo (if you use sudo yet) nano /etc/rc.conf
scroll to bottom, you will see something in parentheses, should have crond as well as some other stuff. I usually add gdm to the end, but I don't think it matters. ctrl+x , y , enter. your done.
any5dollarfootlong 1 year ago
I don't even need to watch the video to know it is a great upload. Keep up the talented and in depth reviews / tutorials / random thoughts.
sudoGaron 1 year ago
@sudoGaron thanks, man. :) I really appreciate that.
thisweekinlinux 1 year ago
I was waiting for it :D
Arch is installed on my VirtualBox :p
I'm just waiting Mageia Alpha, maybe in January 2011. I'm portuguese translator ^^
We need to spread your channel man! You're a nice person, but few views :(
Mkbu 1 year ago
@Mkbu I'm curious to try out the Mageia Alpha as well. :)
I agree though, my channel needs more publicity. If you have any ideas, I'm always open to suggestion. I'll admit, I haven't done much of anything publicity-wise, aside from posting to Twitter/Facebook.
thisweekinlinux 1 year ago
@thisweekinlinux I don't have gr8 ideas too =/
But if it helps, you need a big forum, share your channel, pray for people like it, and share it again. A cycle.
Mkbu 1 year ago
@Mkbu you're right though. I'll definitely try harder to promote the channel, website, and forum. :) Thanks.
thisweekinlinux 1 year ago
I am think of trying Arch what are the benefits of it?Lightweight...
TheSniperofDeath 1 year ago
@TheSniperofDeath lightweight, you get only what you ask for, the packages are very up-to-date, you shouldn't have to reinstall every 6 months, and the packages are "vanilla", meaning they're as close to what the software creator intended them to be as possible.
thisweekinlinux 1 year ago
@thisweekinlinux Does Arch Linux have a lot of support for drivers?
TheSniperofDeath 1 year ago
@TheSniperofDeath it does indeed. you just have to search for whatever hardware you're using in the Arch Wiki, and you can generally find info on it there.
thisweekinlinux 1 year ago
You should do one on Gentoo, or maybe FreeBSD/DesktopBSD? I was completely unaware of AUR as far as Arch goes, and honestly, the whole concept reminds me of Gentoo.. it reeks of it, actually.
jbasniakgm112 1 year ago
@jbasniakgm112 at some point I will take a more thorough look at *BSD. I just haven't had time yet. :)
thisweekinlinux 1 year ago
After loading my install disc's boot loader and selecting "run arch linux," the system reboots right after showing this message:
"Loading /boot/vmlinuz26
Decompressing Linux... mg .......................................... ready
Probing EDD (edd=off to disable)... ok"
Anyone knwo what's wrong?
nemesis8722 1 year ago
@nemesis8722 does it stop booting after that?
Did you burn the CD at the slowest speed possible for your drive? Did you check the md5sum of the ISO you downloaded? (just listing things that could possibly be wrong if it won't boot the disc)
thisweekinlinux 1 year ago
@thisweekinlinux Redownloaded/reburned and it works. Thanks!
nemesis8722 1 year ago
@nemesis8722 Wonderful!
thisweekinlinux 1 year ago
Wow, nice, this will greatly help me since I moved from Ubuntu yesterday.
All of your guides up to now have been a great help and I hope that you find time to do more guides concerning Arch.
chrnoc 1 year ago
@chrnoc awesome! Thanks for the great feedback. I will definitely be doing more work with Arch on this channel.
thisweekinlinux 1 year ago
Have you heard the latest about Chrome OS? The App Store is now open and they started a pilot program to give out Chrome Netbooks for testing.
vargulf19 1 year ago
@vargulf19 I have indeed. Very interesting. :) Thanks for mentioning it though.
thisweekinlinux 1 year ago
thank you so much for covering arch. By doing so, you have effectively cured my distro-hopping xD
EagerEmu 1 year ago
@EagerEmu really? Awesome! I still hop on my laptop, but I need to stay up to date on lots of different Linux distros, but my desktop is effectively Arch for the foreseeable future. :)
thisweekinlinux 1 year ago
this video is soo nice,i saved it just in case i want to do arch,but don't hold your breath..lol
very good video though mate...nuff said..
sneekylinux 1 year ago
@sneekylinux thanks. :) If you do decide to try out Arch, feel free to ask if you have any issues. It really doesn't take that long to get used to, and it's lightning fast.
thisweekinlinux 1 year ago
fourth
Tununias 1 year ago
Thanky you for releasing this !!!! :D
origamiartist2 1 year ago
@origamiartist2 I've been meaning to for a long time, but I was waiting to speak to one of the Arch devs before doing it. I never heard back from him again, so I took his suggestion and figured out how to do it on my own (I normally wouldn't have gone into the manual install process)
thisweekinlinux 1 year ago
third
DeliciousBreakfast 1 year ago
taco *c-c-c-combo breaker!*
thisweekinlinux 1 year ago
@thisweekinlinux Nice
vargulf19 1 year ago
second
Sonicrulz12 1 year ago
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Iceman1234aa 1 year ago