Hi Spatry, I am actually enjoying your tutorials. You are doing a great job. Thanks for your hard work. But instead editing your .conf files with nano, you should try leafpad. It is much easier to handle and you can copy / paste! :-)
Hi Spatry, I followed all your instructions of your video (n.1,2,3,4), but in this step, after upgrading the system, I reboot the vbox and now I have no wallpaper!! Now, when I right click on the desktop, it shows a little windows "Invalid output from pipe-menu of openbox-menu" and it does not allow no command but the terminal. Help me please.
@LinuxSpatry Thank you very much, mate; now it works! (when I typed "pacman -S cairo" it told me that cairo-ubuntu and cairo were in conflict, so I deleted cairo-ubuntu, reboot, and now I have Linux 3.2.6.2 ARCH (x86_64) working. thx a lot again, You are great.
I'm up for all this advanced power user stuff but what's the point of going through all this hassle when you could just open the Update Manager on Ubuntu/Mint? Seems like Arch is just more trouble than its worth to me...
@ottyk Arch is not for everyone... This is a rolling release, meaning you will never have to re-install it again. Mint has a 6 month release cycle and does not always give you the latest software. Arch is BLEEDING EDGE. You get the latest stable updates available. Arch great if you are up to the challenge.
@ottyk If you are not pulling off of testing or experimental then YES it is stable but you still have to read the documentation before doing an update to ensure that something does not break... I will usually wait 48 hours after an update becomes available to see of there is steps that need to be taken before applying an update. On rare occasions an update might break something so it is important to be on the watch-out for things like that.
@LinuxSparty ...or an honest critique from one of your newest subscribers. I didn't understand why there were so many dislikes...other than the volume thing. I personally had to turn the volume down a few times.
@marklee81 Go in to other Spatrys videos and you'll see it's always more/less same amount of dislikes - thats a troll (not the actual dislikes from different youtubers).
@PingCasts I think it has to do with the fact that if your user is in the sudoers group then SUDO will not require a password... you must type in a password for SU. A default install of regular Arch does not come with SUDO. As a quick fix you could uninstall SUDO as I do not think Arch really requires it... Somebody correct me if I am wrong...
@PingCasts CONFIRMED: From ArchWIKI Password cache timeout
Users may wish to change the default timeout before the cached password expires. This is accomplished by adding following to /etc/sudoers (visudo) for example:
Defaults:USER_NAME timestamp_timeout=20
where the password expires for user USER_NAME if unused for over 20 minutes. Values between 0 and 1 are also allowed.
Tip: To ensure sudo always asks for a password, set the timeout to zero.
11:45 into video (pacman -Syu): Spat, you show that you are downloading 191.68 MiB. For some reason, I was only downloading about 150 MiB. Maybe I missed something in an earlier vid? Also, you mention something about hitting an "up arrow", that the upgrade command was saved in a bash or something. I don't recall doing any of this either. Did I miss watching a video or something?
@LinuxSpatry Thanks for the explanation. Maybe I've done it all. I really need to start looking at all the different -S commands & stuff. It would really be good if I knew these by memory.
@LinuxSpatry you don't need "sudo" to do "su". The "su" command is used to replace the current user with another one, when you issue "su" without any parameters then the "root" user is implied. You just need to type "su" and then it will promt you for the root's password, or "su [user]" and then the [user]'s password, after that you will effectively become [user]. When you preppend "sudo" to "su" you are saying "execute the following command as root" -> "become root" which is quite redundant.
@juanjcp27 "sudo su" does not require me to type in my password... "su" by itself does require me to type in the password as you stated... Forgive me but I think I am missing your point as I get super user doing it the way I demonstrated.
@LinuxSpatry It's not a big deal, I just wanted to clarify that you don't need sudo to use su. Regarding what you said about not having to enter your password I suppose you configured "sudo" to let you execute any program as root and not prompt you for a password, and if that's the case I suggest you change that as that's not very safe. By the way, glad you are using Arch now :P it's a great way of learning a lot about linux! I have compiz standalone as you do with xfce4-panel and docky
@juanjcp27 I use super user all of the time... I even have custom colored prompts so I can see whether or not I am running as as Root or Spatry. I am at a point where I am getting really comfortable with the terminal. I see your point where not entering a password can be dangerous, but I am the only person using this computer.
@Swathecqgl I don't understand what you mean. You don't need an alias to make "sudo su" work. sudo is used to let users execute commands as if they were another user without needing the password for that user. Spatry has configured sudo to let him execute any command as root without needing any sort of password, so when he types "sudo su" ... "sudo" executes "su" as root and because "su" is already executed as "root" it doesn't prompt for the root's psw. (and that's why it's unsecure!)
@jaymitra95 Please check your PM. For the benefit of everyone else, you can clear up your cached packages but you will not be able to downgrade if an update breaks something...
13:13 It was on the home page, 'Latest News' When stuff comes up that requires manual intervention the devs tell you what to do. Normally you wouldn't use the --force option with pacman, but in this case they told you to. When you get a warning about a .pacnew/.pacsave file that means it requires manual intervention to change a config file.
Hi Spatry, I am actually enjoying your tutorials. You are doing a great job. Thanks for your hard work. But instead editing your .conf files with nano, you should try leafpad. It is much easier to handle and you can copy / paste! :-)
TheCOF999 3 days ago
@TheCOF999 I use leafpad too.
LinuxSpatry 3 days ago
Hi Spatry, I followed all your instructions of your video (n.1,2,3,4), but in this step, after upgrading the system, I reboot the vbox and now I have no wallpaper!! Now, when I right click on the desktop, it shows a little windows "Invalid output from pipe-menu of openbox-menu" and it does not allow no command but the terminal. Help me please.
racingtheweb 2 weeks ago
@racingtheweb You need to run pacman -S cairo in a terminal then reboot... That should fix the problem.
LinuxSpatry 2 weeks ago
@LinuxSpatry Thank you very much, mate; now it works! (when I typed "pacman -S cairo" it told me that cairo-ubuntu and cairo were in conflict, so I deleted cairo-ubuntu, reboot, and now I have Linux 3.2.6.2 ARCH (x86_64) working. thx a lot again, You are great.
racingtheweb 2 weeks ago
@racingtheweb so glad that worked out for you!!!
LinuxSpatry 2 weeks ago
I'm up for all this advanced power user stuff but what's the point of going through all this hassle when you could just open the Update Manager on Ubuntu/Mint? Seems like Arch is just more trouble than its worth to me...
ottyk 3 weeks ago in playlist ArchBang Bootcamp
@ottyk Arch is not for everyone... This is a rolling release, meaning you will never have to re-install it again. Mint has a 6 month release cycle and does not always give you the latest software. Arch is BLEEDING EDGE. You get the latest stable updates available. Arch great if you are up to the challenge.
LinuxSpatry 3 weeks ago
@LinuxSpatry There are plenty rolling distributions around - hard ones like Arch and Gentoo or as easy like Mint Debian Edition...
Videotubelord 3 weeks ago
@LinuxSpatry Good point. Just updated and my desktop broke, not sure if it is X or Openbox. Is bleeding edge always stable?
ottyk 3 weeks ago in playlist ArchBang Bootcamp
@ottyk If you are not pulling off of testing or experimental then YES it is stable but you still have to read the documentation before doing an update to ensure that something does not break... I will usually wait 48 hours after an update becomes available to see of there is steps that need to be taken before applying an update. On rare occasions an update might break something so it is important to be on the watch-out for things like that.
LinuxSpatry 3 weeks ago
29 dislikes? Just a guess...but I would guess 28 are cause YOUR VOLUME CONTROL!
marklee81 1 month ago
@marklee81 I have a troll expressing his/her love
LinuxSpatry 1 month ago
@LinuxSparty ...or an honest critique from one of your newest subscribers. I didn't understand why there were so many dislikes...other than the volume thing. I personally had to turn the volume down a few times.
marklee81 1 month ago
@marklee81 I am being trolled... I have disabled the ranking system due to ABUSE.
LinuxSpatry 1 month ago
@marklee81 Go in to other Spatrys videos and you'll see it's always more/less same amount of dislikes - thats a troll (not the actual dislikes from different youtubers).
Videotubelord 1 month ago
Threw archbang on my laptop. It's even more awesome then the last time I tried it.
PingCasts 1 month ago
@PingCasts You cannot go wrong with this one! It runs great on my (single core) Compaq Presario!
LinuxSpatry 1 month ago
@LinuxSpatry my only issue is sudo not requiring a password. I have a single core processor on my laptop as well.
PingCasts 1 month ago
@PingCasts I think it has to do with the fact that if your user is in the sudoers group then SUDO will not require a password... you must type in a password for SU. A default install of regular Arch does not come with SUDO. As a quick fix you could uninstall SUDO as I do not think Arch really requires it... Somebody correct me if I am wrong...
LinuxSpatry 1 month ago
@PingCasts CONFIRMED: From ArchWIKI Password cache timeout
Users may wish to change the default timeout before the cached password expires. This is accomplished by adding following to /etc/sudoers (visudo) for example:
Defaults:USER_NAME timestamp_timeout=20
where the password expires for user USER_NAME if unused for over 20 minutes. Values between 0 and 1 are also allowed.
Tip: To ensure sudo always asks for a password, set the timeout to zero.
LinuxSpatry 1 month ago
@LinuxSpatry they put a line in /etc/sudoers.d that makes anyone in the wheel group not need a password.
PingCasts 1 month ago
@PingCasts I noticed that...
LinuxSpatry 1 month ago
@LinuxSpatry as opposed to /etc/sudoers where everything else is.
PingCasts 1 month ago
Nice Spatry :)
TheGeo913 1 month ago
11:45 into video (pacman -Syu): Spat, you show that you are downloading 191.68 MiB. For some reason, I was only downloading about 150 MiB. Maybe I missed something in an earlier vid? Also, you mention something about hitting an "up arrow", that the upgrade command was saved in a bash or something. I don't recall doing any of this either. Did I miss watching a video or something?
brobriobri 1 month ago
@brobriobri download size may vary.... hitting up and down arrows let you scroll through previous commands you have issued into the terminal.
LinuxSpatry 1 month ago
@LinuxSpatry Thanks for the explanation. Maybe I've done it all. I really need to start looking at all the different -S commands & stuff. It would really be good if I knew these by memory.
brobriobri 1 month ago
@brobriobri repetition repetition.... you will remember them in time... until then RTFM my friend!
LinuxSpatry 1 month ago
@LinuxSpatry you don't need "sudo" to do "su". The "su" command is used to replace the current user with another one, when you issue "su" without any parameters then the "root" user is implied. You just need to type "su" and then it will promt you for the root's password, or "su [user]" and then the [user]'s password, after that you will effectively become [user]. When you preppend "sudo" to "su" you are saying "execute the following command as root" -> "become root" which is quite redundant.
juanjcp27 1 month ago
@juanjcp27 "sudo su" does not require me to type in my password... "su" by itself does require me to type in the password as you stated... Forgive me but I think I am missing your point as I get super user doing it the way I demonstrated.
LinuxSpatry 1 month ago
@LinuxSpatry It's not a big deal, I just wanted to clarify that you don't need sudo to use su. Regarding what you said about not having to enter your password I suppose you configured "sudo" to let you execute any program as root and not prompt you for a password, and if that's the case I suggest you change that as that's not very safe. By the way, glad you are using Arch now :P it's a great way of learning a lot about linux! I have compiz standalone as you do with xfce4-panel and docky
juanjcp27 1 month ago
@juanjcp27 I use super user all of the time... I even have custom colored prompts so I can see whether or not I am running as as Root or Spatry. I am at a point where I am getting really comfortable with the terminal. I see your point where not entering a password can be dangerous, but I am the only person using this computer.
LinuxSpatry 1 month ago
@juanjcp27 I think they must have aliased sudo su to become root.I prefer to just use su and have different passwords for regular user and root.
Swathecqgl 1 month ago
@Swathecqgl I don't understand what you mean. You don't need an alias to make "sudo su" work. sudo is used to let users execute commands as if they were another user without needing the password for that user. Spatry has configured sudo to let him execute any command as root without needing any sort of password, so when he types "sudo su" ... "sudo" executes "su" as root and because "su" is already executed as "root" it doesn't prompt for the root's psw. (and that's why it's unsecure!)
juanjcp27 1 month ago
Please make a video on clearing up rootfs space on ArchBang
Mine is 5.7 gb of 10gb
jaymitra95 1 month ago
@jaymitra95 Please check your PM. For the benefit of everyone else, you can clear up your cached packages but you will not be able to downgrade if an update breaks something...
# pacman -Scc
LinuxSpatry 1 month ago
@LinuxSpatry do: sudo pacman -Sc so that the last package version installed is not erased and you can always downgrade.
robvelor 1 month ago
@robvelor Correct! I have plenty of space reserved for root, so I will not be issuing those commands myself
LinuxSpatry 1 month ago
13:13 It was on the home page, 'Latest News' When stuff comes up that requires manual intervention the devs tell you what to do. Normally you wouldn't use the --force option with pacman, but in this case they told you to. When you get a warning about a .pacnew/.pacsave file that means it requires manual intervention to change a config file.
eldersprig 1 month ago
@eldersprig I noticed that after making this video... Thank you for pointing this out to the community...
LinuxSpatry 1 month ago
How can I change language for keyboard keys in croatian because y and z are reversed and I dont have čćšđž.
davorsite 1 month ago
@davorsite this is answered on ArchBANG's Forum: bbs dot archbang dot org/viewtopic dot php?id=870
LinuxSpatry 1 month ago
" You are presented with this LOVELY message..." LOL... love that part.
Great video and tutorial...
WinonuX 1 month ago
too many terminal use ....... that too much for my old eyes :-)
JoFri24 1 month ago
@JoFri24 you can always install the terminal that you want which will allow you to increase the font size to your liking.
LinuxSpatry 1 month ago
Thanks for updates. Doing it parallel on virtualbox.
davorsite 1 month ago
No need to try to get out of the gui way of doing things. Once you learn vim it will happen automatically and quickly hahahahaha
dodo3773 1 month ago
I want to see how you install Cardapio, themes, desktop environment, Compiz, etc..
rayyanputra 1 month ago 11
@rayyanputra You got it!
LinuxSpatry 1 month ago
@rayyanputra Me ttoo! (:
jordanlang2 2 weeks ago in playlist ArchBang Bootcamp
I have not even tried the key signing thing yet. I think I will wait for everyone to catch up first.
dodo3773 1 month ago
@dodo3773 Good Idea... What did you think of my workaround? I could not find anything on the forums that covered that issue with pacman keysigning...
LinuxSpatry 1 month ago
Your video and audio is out of sync it self. Just to let you know.
MrMultiLinuxuser 1 month ago
@MrMultiLinuxuser it is just in the first part... later in the video it syncs again... Still tweaking FFMPEG
LinuxSpatry 1 month ago
@LinuxSpatry o ok yeah i didnt know you have not got to that yet
MrMultiLinuxuser 1 month ago