ARCH LINUX NOTES.

By: Matthew_Moore
Creating and Formatting Live USB images with DD
To View Drives use
sudo fdisk -l
Creating a Live USB ( Drive Needs to be unmounted )
sudo dd bs=4M if=/path/to/archlinux.iso of=/dev/sdx && sync
Formatting USB back to Normal
sudo mkfs.vfat /dev/sdx -I
To copy a CD/DVD to a .iso
cd /dev; ls -ld sr* cdr* dvd*
dd if=/dev/cdrom of=~/dvdcopy.iso
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Enable AUR support for Arch Linux
Edit Pacman.Conf file
sudo [text editor] /etc/pacman.conf
Example:
sudo mousepad /etc/pacman.conf
First enable/uncomment
[multilib]
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
Add Repo
[archlinuxfr]
SigLevel = Never
Server = http://repo.archlinux.fr/$arch
install
sudo pacman -Sy yaourt
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Creating a Local Repo for AUR pakcages
Add local source in your pacman.conf file
[local]
SigLevel = Never
Server = file:///home/user/work/local/
Create Local Directory /home/user/work/local/
Download AUR Tarballs and build the packages in
this directory.
Then Open Terminal and CD into this directory and
execute this following command to make it a database.

repo-add local.db.tar.gz *xz

Then in your Packages list in your Build Directory
add a list of the AUR packages you wish to install
from the Local Repo.
##AUR Packages
List here
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GUI frontends for Pacman ( Octopi )
yaourt -S pamac-aur
yaourt -S octopi
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Stand-alone Update Notifications Applet
yaourt -S kalu
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Install Optional Fonts ( needed for Some Websites )
sudo pacman -S opendesktop-fonts
yaourt -S fontconfig-ttf-ms-fonts
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Install Flash and other Multimedia Codecs
sudo pacman -S a52dec faac faad2 flac jasper lame libdca libdv libmad libmpeg2 l
ibtheora libvorbis libxv wavpack x264 xvidcore gstreamer0.10-plugins flashplugin
libdvdcss libdvdread libdvdnav gecko-mediaplayer dvd+rw-tools dvdauthor dvgrab
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To get volume settings and audio controls working on XFCE
sudo pacman -S pavucontrol pulseaudio-alsa
To enable keyboard Volume Buttons install Volumed daemon
yaourt -S xfce4-volumed
A reboot is required.
Once isntalled. Add the XFCE audio mixer to your XFCE panel by right clicking on
panel and selecting add new items.
Then right click on the Applet and select properties.
Change Sound Card to Plyback: Built-in Audio.
right click again and select Run Audio Mixer. Change the sound card
here to Playback: Built-in Audio. Just like before
Now your Audio and Volume controls should all function normally.

It is also recomended that you add pulse audio volume control or pavucontrol to
your panel for quick accsess to device settings.
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Install Archive Managment for Arch Linux
for the XFCE desktop use
sudo pacman -S zlib p7zip unzip zip zziplib
yaourt -S engrampa-thunar
for the cinnamon desktop use
sudo pacman -S nemo-fileroller zlib p7zip unzip zip zziplib
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Install all XFCE extras
sudo pacman -S xfce4-goodies
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Install Printer/Scanner support in Arch Linux
sudo pacman -S libcups cups ghostscript gsfonts system-config-printer simple-sca
n
Start Deamon
sudo systemctl
sudo systemctl
sudo systemctl
sudo systemctl

enable org.cups.cupsd.service
enable cups-browsed.service
start org.cups.cupsd.service
start cups-browsed.service

Software for HP DeskJet, OfficeJet, inkjet, and Photosmart Printers

sudo pacman -S hplip
To Fix CUPS Server errors in Manjaro / Antergos
sudo pacman -Rdd foomatic-db foomatic-db-nonfree
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Bluetooth Support Arch Linux
sudo pacman -S bluez bluez-cups bluez-utils
Enable Driver
sudo modprobe btusb
sudo systemctl start bluetooth
sudo systemctl enable bluetooth
Install Bluetooth Manager
yaourt -S blueman
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Enable auto login for LXDM
sudo [text editor] /etc/lxdm/lxdm.conf
Example

sudo mousepad /etc/lxdm/lxdm.conf

uncomment and set autologin username to enable
Example:
change this
[base]
## uncomment and set autologin username to enable autologin
# autologin=dgod
to this
[base]
## uncomment and set autologin username to enable autologin
autologin=matt
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Installing Virtual Box and Enabling Full features and permissions
sudo pacman -S virtualbox virtualbox-host-dkms virtualbox-host-modules
yaourt -S virtualbox-ext-oracle
Then load the Vbox driver with this command.
sudo modprobe vboxdrv
To give yourself permissions so virtualbox can access Shared folders and USB dev
ices use this command,
sudo gpasswd -a $USER vboxusers
To load the VirtualBox module at boot time, refer to Kernel_modules#Loading and
create a *.conf with the line:
vboxdrv
in location
/etc/modules-load.d/virtualbox.conf
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OTHER FIXES AND WORKAROUNDS:
Fix Thumbnails in file manager
sudo pacman -S tumbler ffmpegthumbnailer gstreamer0.10 poppler-glib libgsf libop
enraw
sudo rm -rf ~/.thumbnails/
mv ~/.config/Thunar ~/.config/Thunar.bak
sudo update-mime-database /usr/share/mime
Then logout and back in or Reboot.
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Enable Teamviewer Daemon in Arch/Manjaro:
sudo systemctl start teamviewerd

sudo systemctl enable teamviewerd

( if it needs to be restarted )
sudo systemctl --system daemon-reload
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Hide Windows Partitions on DualBoot:
Create a new file /etc/udev/rules.d/99-hide-partitions.rules and add one line pe
r partition you want to hide like so:
( change "sda*" to match the partition you wish to hide )
KERNEL=="sda1",ENV{UDISKS_IGNORE}="1"
KERNEL=="sda2",ENV{UDISKS_IGNORE}="1"
You should be able to dynamically activate it as root:
# udevadm trigger --verbose
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Manually Override and enable Trackpad palmcheck:
Add the following command to your startup applications
syndaemon -k -i 2 &
-i 2 sets the idle time to 2 seconds. The idle time specifies how many seconds t
o wait after the last key-press before enabling the touchpad again.
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Disable Screen Blanking (beyond disabling the screensaver)
Add the following commands to your start up applications.
xset -dpms &
xset s noblank &
xset s off &
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Enable Notifications for XFCE Mail-Watcher Extention.
Run on click: thunderbird
Run on New Messages: notify-send "New mail" "You have new messages in your inbox
" -i xfce-newmail
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To display System Checks during The Bootup proscess. Edit yourGrub.conf file wit
h this line of text:
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="resume=/dev/disk/by-uuid/b7b16ca7-81c7-4614-a29f-837
65d83577a"
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Commands for Managing System Clock.
(Veiw Crrent status) timedatectl status
(enable ntp) sudo pacman -S ntp
sudo timedatectl set-ntp true

(List Timezones) timedatectl list-timezones

(set Timezone "Example") sudo timedatectl set-timezone America/New_York
(Manually set system Time "Example") sudo timedatectl set-time "2013-08-11 23:5
6:16"
Note: To Fix Clock errors when dual booting, Select Local time when installing
Manjaro
( This is done by default if using GUI install) Then Open Terminal and Se
t the TimeZone as UTC. Using the followng command.
sudo timedatectl set-timezone UTC
There is a bug that causes the System time and the Local time to be reversed. Se
tting
The TimeZone to UTC Results in Correct time Being diplayed on the Desktop.
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