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(on Wikipedia)
https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=ArchBang
https://archbang.org/

Based on Arch Linux and made to be a better out of the box experience.

Inspired by CrunchBang Linux

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• 2012-09-26 – systemd optional — ArchBang was supposedly working to make systemd optional.

2013-02-04 ∞

• Need to not track recent documents
• Replace gnome-MPlayer with VLC
• what other gnome crap is there?

• fbpanel has less dependencies than tint2, use it instead..

UUID=WHATEVER /mnt/mountpoint users,exec,noatime,nodiratime,compress=lzo 0 2

Need to fix the theme, it’s annoying in some places:

• scroll bar
• tabs of a terminal

• shiny shiny anything anywhere.. ugh tabs in Firefox

  • thebear isn’t bad.. the top toolbar is too big, the bottom is too small.. no sides?
• change the wallpaper
• adjust the taskbar style, it’s tint2

• port my preferences..

# Refresh the package list and Update the system..
\pacman -Syyu

\pacman -S \
  btrfs-progs     ` # btrfs filesystem ` \
                  ` # https://archlinux.org/packages/core/x86_64/btrfs-progs/ `
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Search:

\pacman -Ss string

To list a dependency tree of a package:

\pactree package_name

Download a package without installing it:

\pacman -Sw package_name

Install a ‘local’ package that is not from a remote repository

\pacman -U /path/to/package/package_name-version.pkg.tar.xz

To remove a package and its dependencies which are not required by any other installed package:

\pacman -Rs package_name

NOTE – don’t clear the cache unless it’s really needed..

To list all the packages depending on a package:

\whoneeds package_name

FIXME – there is no whoneeds application! pactree seems to work.

I may need to do this for anything I have for an airwall, then download all those dependencies and any sub-dependencies, and so on.. yuk.

To search for already installed packages:

\pacman -Qs strings

To display extensive information about a given package:

\pacman -Si package_name

2011-08-12 ∞

Part of my 2011-08-12 Linux testing nightmare.

My pre-installation notes:

• Super-t for a terminal
• sudo abinstall
• set up the clock
• prep the HDD
• install
• configure (root pass, add a user)
• install GRUB

• sudo passwd root or the default password is ‘root’.

  • The installer does this.

The installer guided me through all of this, all I needed to know was how to get a terminal and begin the install. Shouldn’t the first run already do this, or shouldn’t there be a desktop icon? Oh hell, are they doing things “the Arch way” ?

• Couldn’t delete an old ldlinux.sys off of my USB, so I reformatted (ext2), which took a long time.

2011-07-23 ∞

• A bit too braindead, no dependency resolution..

2011-02-04 x86_64 ∞

• failed to find the usb when booting

• safe mode also fails

FAIL

2011-02-04 i686 ∞

I had the same issues.. but I learned that I should not be using UNetbootin. I forgot about the Arch Linux use of dd.

Waiting 30 seconds for device /dev/disk/by-label/ARCH_201102 …

• Looks and feels good.
• Simple and somewhat ‘simple’ (nearly retarded) text install.
• Had to not bother with any of my data partitions, it was too retarded. I’ll do that in fstab manually. Editing fstab was easily done with the installer.
• No ‘user’ group was made.
• Console root login tries to launch X.. what the fuck?
• creating a new user does nothing, no setup. I had to edit ~/.initrc to add openbox. So this needs serious tweaking!

• ~/.xsession and ~/.xinitrc

  • .xinitrc
• my first pacman -Sy wine needed an upgrade, then pacman-db-upgrade

• pacman doesn’t fucking resolve dependencies?!?!

  • I tried installing Firefox and Midori, and they downloaded and installed, and with some other software, but both wouldn’t actually start up.

• gnome-packagekit doesn’t actually install anything GUI .. what the fuck is going on?

FIN.

Checking out CTKArch.