Arch

Tool	Description
Archcraft	Yet another minimal distro
ArcoLinux	Another distro
Bling	Utilities for AwesomeWM
AwesomeWM	Window Manager
Qtile	Tiling window manager

• install tar.gz???
• Offline installation of packages

Pacman

Display information

pacman -Qii

Display information by name

pacman -Qi name

Packages installed

• https://averagelinuxuser.com/clean-arch-linux/
• Show orphan packages, that are not required by your system. Orphans are packages that were installed as a dependency and are no longer required by any package

pacman -Qdt

• Packages installed with third party tools (paru)

pacman -Qm

• Show you packages that you explicitly installed and that aren’t dependencies of some other package.

pacman -Qet

All packages

pacman -Qqe

Remove package

pacman -R name

Remove all package from package

pacman -Rns name

Remove packages your system doesn’t need

pacman -Yc

Clean pacman cache

sudo pacman -Scc

Pacman Mirrors

Install reflector for update packages.

sudo pacman -S reflector

Create a backup for mirrorlist.

cp /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist.bkp

Add mirrors

sudo reflector --country 'Spain,France' --latest 5 --age 2 --fastest 5 --protocol https --sort rate --save /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

Edit pacman.conf for uncomment parallel downloads

sudo vim /etc/pacman.conf

#MaxParallelDownloads = 5

Java

https://rtfm.co.ua/en/arch-linux-set-a-java-version/

paru -S jdk

sudo archlinux-java status

Certificates

Add trusted certificates:

• Move /usr/local/share/ca-certificates/*.crt to /etc/ca-certificates/trust-source/anchors/

• Do the same with all manually-added /etc/ssl/certs/*.pem files and rename them to *.crt

• Instead of update-ca-certificates, run sudo trust extract-compat

# one by one
trust anchor --store server.crt
sudo update-ca-trust

List all

trust list

Move all

sudo mv *.pem /etc/ca-certificates/trust-source/anchors/

sudo trust extract-compat

sudo update-ca-trust

Errors

• Error with GPG keys

error: failed to run: gpg --recv-keys 0D96DF4D4110E5C43FBFB17F2D347EA6AA65421D E3FF2839C048B25C084DEBE9B26995E310250568

pacman-key --refresh-keys