Posts tagged: arch

💭 "Pacman is currently in use, please wait."

2025-09-16T01:26:33Z

"Pacman is currently in use, please wait." / Pacman & Package Upgrade Issues / Arch Linux Forums

bbs.archlinux.org

I ran into this issue today, never have I ever before though. Omarchy looking a bit sus on me. This was even after a fresh boot, no pacman process running. just realized I forgot to check yay which it has installed for me. I had to force it in.

sudo rm /var/lib/pacman/db.lck

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This post is a thought. It’s a short note that I make about someone else’s content online #thoughts

💭 The decline of "i use vim btw" - YouTube

2025-06-29T17:46:52Z

vim usage is becoming normie level. Just like archinstall made it too easy to install arch and brought normies into the ecosystem. It killed ArchBTW^TM^, distros like lazyvim have killed vimBTW^TM^. It used to be that to run arch, vim, nvim you had to read the docs, and go deep on understanding. running archinstallor lazyvim make it so easy to get started that you miss all of the details, you no longer have to understand ctags, quickfix, what an lsp is, or even how to set your own keybindings. You just use the damn thing, like you would with VSC****. No shame to anyone who does this, but you are probably missing out on a bunch of really useful features of a very core tool in your workflow.

Just discovered Sylvan Franklin in this post and he is cracked, sub now.

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This post is a thought. It’s a short note that I make about someone else’s content online #thoughts

💭 pacman/Tips and tricks - ArchWiki

2024-07-06T16:52:09Z

pacman/Tips and tricks - ArchWiki

wiki.archlinux.org

The arch wiki is always full of good content, and pacman tips and tricks does not disappoint. Today I discovered this command to remove orphaned dependencies on my system.

pacman -Qdtq | pacman -Rns -

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This post is a thought. It’s a short note that I make about someone else’s content online #thoughts

arch dependencies

2024-04-20T07:42:21Z

AUR.">paru has some nice features that I rarely use, and hav to look up when I need them. Here are two commands to help with dependency management.

❯ paru -Qii nodejs
Name            : nodejs
Version         : 21.7.2-1
Description     : Evented I/O for V8 javascript
Architecture    : x86_64
URL             : https://nodejs.org/
Licenses        : MIT
Groups          : None
Provides        : None
Depends On      : icu  libuv  libnghttp2  libnghttp3  libngtcp2  openssl  zlib  brotli  c-ares
Optional Deps   : npm: nodejs package manager [installed]
Required By     : node-gyp  nodejs-nopt  npm  semver
Optional For    : None
Conflicts With  : None
Replaces        : None
Installed Size  : 46.86 MiB
Packager        : Felix Yan <felixonmars@archlinux.org>
Build Date      : Thu 04 Apr 2024 05:11:09 AM CDT
Install Date    : Mon 15 Apr 2024 07:27:02 AM CDT
Install Reason  : Installed as a dependency for another package
Install Script  : No
Validated By    : Signature
Backup Files    : None
Extended Data   : pkgtype=pkg

You can check all the packages depended on by nodejs by running the following. This is everything from all of the repos you have configured, not what you have installed.

❯ pactree --reverse --sync --depth 1 nodejs

nodejs
├─acorn
├─ansible-language-server
├─asar
├─babel-cli
├─babel-core
├─bash-language-server
├─blinksocks
├─bower
├─browserify
├─coffeescript
├─dot-language-server
├─emscripten
├─eslint
├─eslint-language-server
├─eslint_d
├─gitlab
├─gnomon
├─grunt-cli
├─gtop
├─gulp
├─hedgedoc
├─jake
├─markdownlint-cli2
├─marked
├─marked-man
├─matrix-appservice-irc
├─modclean
├─node-gyp
├─nodejs-emojione
├─nodejs-material-design-icons
├─nodejs-nopt
├─nodejs-source-map
├─nodejs-yaml
├─npm
├─openui5
├─pm2
├─prettier
├─pyright
├─rapydscript-ng
├─s3rver
├─semver
├─serverless
├─stylelint
├─stylus
├─svelte-language-server
├─tailwindcss-language-server
├─ts-node
├─typescript
├─typescript-svelte-plugin
├─uglify-js
├─vscode-css-languageserver
├─vscode-html-languageserver
├─vscode-json-languageserver
├─vue-language-server
├─vue-typescript-plugin
├─wasm-bindgen
├─web-ext
├─wrangler
├─yaml-language-server
├─yarn

💭 Arch Linux - News: The xz package has been backdoored

2024-04-16T13:00:33Z

Arch Linux - News: The xz package has been backdoored

archlinux.org

Check your system to see if you are vulnerable to the xz backdoor.

I found this line most pertanent to me.

The xz packages prior to version 5.6.1-2 (specifically 5.6.0-1 and 5.6.1-1) contain this backdoor.

Also it appears that arch is not vulnerable as it does not directly link openssh to liblzma, so the known attack vecotor is not possible. read to the end of the linked article for more.

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This post is a thought. It’s a short note that I make about someone else’s content online #thoughts

💭 How to kill process based on the port number in Linux - Linux ...

2023-10-23T15:15:02Z

How to kill process based on the port number in Linux

Learn to kill a process by port in Linux using fuser, lsof, and ss commands. Essential for system admins managing network processes efficiently.

LinuxConfig · linuxconfig.org

I’ve often struggled to find and kill a process using a certain port on archlinux. Mainly becuase most guides use netstat rather than ss.

Here is how I just killed the process using port 5000 using fuser.

sudo fuser -k 5000/tcp

You can also get information about the process by running lsof

❯ lsof -i :5000
COMMAND      PID   USER   FD   TYPE    DEVICE SIZE/OFF NODE NAME
thoughts 1058292 waylon   11u  IPv4 119622828      0t0  TCP *:commplex-main (LISTEN)

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💭 containers/aardvark-dns: Authoritative dns server for A/AAAA c...

2023-07-29T01:05:22Z

GitHub - containers/aardvark-dns: Authoritative dns server for A/AAAA container records. Forwards other request to host's /etc/resolv.conf

Authoritative dns server for A/AAAA container records. Forwards other request to host's /etc/resolv.conf - containers/aardvark-dns

GitHub · github.com

I ran into some dns issues while running podman on arch, aparantly I had missed an optional dependency of aardvark-dns for container to container dns resolution.

paru -S aardvark-dns

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The one reason I switched to arch

2022-07-23T12:05:55Z

The community, that’s it, end of post, roll the credits.

I’m a tinkerer #

I am a tinkerer, I am not going to run a stock desktop manager, mostly becuase that’s just not how my brain works. I need to tweak everything to fit my needs. Grantid I have not spent much time in many full fledged linux desktop environments. They are far more customizable than windows ever will be, I absolutely love that about them. Inevitibly I end up in a situation where I hit a wall, it just won’t do what I want it to do, or my lack of understanding what came wtih it holds me back.

minimal #

I love minimal installs. I love just building up my system from the bottom up with things that I like, I understand, and that I can script.

I’m a noob #

I spend a lot of my time in the terminal. I’d like to think I know how to use a linux command line for software development really well, but there are a lot of things that I still dont know all that well, mostly because I don’t need to.

aur">The AUR #

Arch’s community maintained repo

Now by far this is the thing that really kicked me over the edge and made arch feel like something that I needed to use. While on any Debian based distro it was inevitible that I would stumble accross a bug that was fixed in a newer version, not available in the standard repos, want new features that are not available in the standard repos, or want software that is not packaged into one of the standard repos.

This makes creating scripted installs/updates difficult. I have to pull releses from github, or some random website, or clone and build packages myself. It’s not too hard, but since I am the only one that maintains my personal install script it’s inevitible that something changes in the build process or release on something and breaks it over time.

PPA’s are not the same. Well maintained ppa’s are fine, but many of them are not. PPA’s are just deb files that someone hosts and their quality can be hit or miss depending on if the maintainer still uses it or not. While the AUR is not completely absent of stale packages it’s rolling release nature tends to keep them always up to date, and when it doesn’t the community helps out by flagging these packages in the AUR and upvoting maintained packages.

The Arch Wiki #

I have underutilized the arch wiki in the past, but dang it has some really good guides. For me (at my level) they edge on being to brief, generally I find wiki’s overly versose and hard to find what you are looking for. The arch wiki gives you what you need and no more. The articles and forum really have answered many of my questions and depened my understanding of linux.

I am learning #

While I am still a noob to a lot of this I am learning, and a combination of the minimal install with the arch wiki have really helped me learn a lot about lower level things like partitioning, grub, systemd, xorg. On most other systems these were just taken care of out of the box.

Arch is not hardcore #

I think there is an old sentimate that arch is for hardcore users only. Their typical install process really gatekeeps it this way, but there are other installers such as archinstall, which I used and now ships with the arch iso, that make it not much harder than any other distro.

If you are a tinkerer who likes to try different things, likes to set you machine up just the way you like it, and script it, arch really feels much easier to do this with. I’d even stand behind it being a distro for noob tinkerers.

Does distro matter?? #

Idk if it really matters all that much in the end, but the community behind the aur and arch wiki make setting up an up to date machine so much easier than on any lts based distro.