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Arch Linux is a simple, lightweight, rolling Linux distribution aimed at keeping things simple. Use this tag for questions specific to Arch Linux. Do NOT use this tag for derivatives, such as Manjaro.

Arch Linux

Website: http://www.archlinux.org/

Philosophy:

History:

Arch Linux was founded by Canadian programmer, Judd Vinet. Its first formal release, Arch Linux 0.1, was on March 11, 2002. Although Arch is completely independent, it draws inspiration from the simplicity of other distributions including Slackware, CRUX and BSD.

In 2007, Judd Vinet stepped down as Project Lead to pursue other interests and was replaced by Aaron Griffin who continues to lead the project today.

Technical Details:

Documentation:

Community:

Common Tasks:

  • Refresh the package list and update:

    # pacman -Syu

  • Install or Update a package:

    # pacman -S package_name

  • Search for package

    # pacman -Ss package_name

  • Query locally installed packages

    # pacman -Qi package_name

Further reading

ArchLinux

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unknown public key 8F0871F202119294 on Arch Linux

I already got this installed: 1 core/archlinux-keyring 20170104-1 [installed] 10 blackarch/blackarch-keyring 20140118-3 [installed] But I get an error when upgrading libc++abi from AUR: ==> Verifying source file signatures with gpg... …
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What should I consider when deleting an AUR package?

I downloaded utorrent and spotify from the AUR packages. Because of that I also had to install wine, but I couldn't manage to delete them, instead I deleted wine as a workaround and remove utorrent's and spotify's directories. What is the right way…
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Arch Linux Installation Grub Problem

I'm installing arch Linux and I typed in the command grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg And it responded with WARNING: Failed to connect to lvmetad. Falling back to device scanning. What do I do?
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Is ArchBang just Arch Linux + Openbox?

I'm a Arch + KDE guy. I need to reinstall frequently, and I don't like that when I do pacman -S kde I have to wait like two hours (slow Internet) without using the PC. So I'm looking for an Arch based distro, but just Arch + a WM or DE; nothing more…
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What does "remove make dependencies after install" mean?

So I'm new to Arch Linux and I'm trying to install a package from the AUR using yay. I get a prompt saying Remove make dependencies after install? [y/N]. Can anyone tell me what this means?
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How to start process as a specific user on boot

I am using Arch Linux. I need to start my web application automatically should the server should restart. I need to run it as user 'www'. How can I do this?
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Does Arch Linux work on i386 cpu architecture

Does Arch Linux work on my i386 cpu. I read on its website that it's optimized for i686, does it mean Arch Linux won't work on i386. By the way, I don't want to compile it, I want to use the available binary if possible.
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Is it OK to install Debian or Ubuntu Binaries on Arch Linux?

I'm interested in installing a program called Grenchman on Arch Linux. Unfortuantely, it only has binaries in "Debian Wheezy", "Debian Jessie", and "Fedora": Debian Wheezy [ sha1 | sig ] Debian Jessie, Ubuntu 12.04, 12.10, and 13.04 [ sha1 | sig…
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Arch Linux - many commands not found

I just installed Arch Linux on my machine, but many of the commands simply don't work. Those that work are the very basics, such as cd and ls, but things like visudo are not found.
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How can I successfully build an Archiso image? ("airootfs is not a mountpoint")

Following https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Archiso, I try to build directly from a prestine template: sudo cp -r /usr/share/archiso/configs/releng archlive cd archlive sudo ./build.sh -v -N foo The result is: [mkarchiso] INFO: Configuration…
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Cmus not showing any songs after fresh install

I am trying to install and use cmus properly, but I am running into some trouble. All of the guides that I have found have me enter the following command to add music to cmus. :add /home/username/path/to/music when I do this and go into the browser…
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Arch-Linux: no boot messages

I'm fairly new to Arch-Linux so maybe this Question is a little bit ridiculous. If I boot the "Live-CD" of Arch-Linux, I see which services are successfully started, indicated by a green [OK] message. After installing Arch-Linux I only get a blank…
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Fake installation of java-runtime package?

I don't use openjdk environment, and I've got oracle java installed, then linked the java / javac binaries to /usr/bin. Now when I build packages that requires java-runtime package, I had to edit the PKGBUILD everytime to strip off the dependency of…
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Fail to boot Arch Linux after kernel upgrade

I upgraded my Arch Linux using pacman -Syu, and then reboot. The machine failed to boot, thus I switched to tty to troubleshoot. The following is my findings. systemctl --failed shows that systemd-modules-load.service failed. sudo journalctl -u…
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Automating Arch Installation

To reduce the pain of installing Arch, I just put all usual commands with slight modification in a file and put #!/bin/bash on top. Here's how it looks like: #!/bin/bash pacman -Sy reflector --noconfirm timedatectl set-ntp true parted --script…
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