There are two main choices for getting VS Code on Arch Linux: Install Code – OSS from Arch repositories Install Microsoft’s VS Code from AUR I know. It’s confusing. Let me clear the air for you. VS Code is an open source
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How do you update Arch Linux? You run sudo pacman -Syu command. How do you install a package on Arch Linux? You run sudo pacman -Syu package_name. Which might make you wonder why do you need a system update while installing a
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On our Arch installation video, a viewer requested a tutorial on installing Arch but with BTRFS and with encryption enabled. And hence this tutorial came into existence. I am using the official archinstall script. Though a command line tool, this guided installer
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Core? Extra? Multilib? You’ll find these terms ‘strange’ when you are just starting your Arch journey but you’ll come across them in various forum discussion and wiki references. Hence, I thought of writing this tutorial to quickly explain the different kinds of
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So, you installed Arch Linux, but find downloading updates/packages a bit slow. Well, unless you have a network issue, it is an easy fix by selecting the fastest mirror. Unlike Ubuntu, where you get a GUI utility to find and enable the
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So, I installed Arch Linux quite easily thanks to the archinstall script. After I started using it and exploring it, I tried using my Bluetooth headphones only to notice that the Bluetooth was not working. I could see the Bluetooth option but
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The other day I was trying to install Hyperland on Arch Linux. When I used the Pacman command to install it, it threw a ‘target not found’ error. [abhishek@itsfoss ~]$ sudo pacman -S hyperland [sudo] password for abhishek: error: target not found:
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Installing Docker on Arch Linux is easy. It is available in the Extra repository and you can simply do the pacman magic: sudo pacman -S docker But there are more steps involved here to run Docker on Arch Linux properly. Making Arch
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Firefox and Brave are my daily drivers for web browsing. When I installed Arch Linux with GNOME, it had GNOME Web browser. It’s a decent browser but not something I can live with it as I need my saved passwords, browsing history
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You’ll find a huge number of software packaged by the community members in Arch User Repository (AUR). Since it is coming from third parties, purists suggest downloading and building each desired package from AUR manually. But that’s a tedious task and that’s
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