Huh...finally got this video...I'm obsessed with linux and now I'm in love with arch and surprisingly u released this video...a great thing for me sir💖
This was great Ermanno, very helpful. I find it hard to remember all the pacman commands. Good to have it all in one spot to refer back to. Thanks for this! I know the Arch Wiki exists , but having a human explain things as well as reference the commands is better for me and the way I learn.
This is, without a doubt, *THE* best tutorial channel on UA-cam! From installing Arch to doing maintence and everything else YOU are the best!! BY FAR MY FAVORITE UA-cam CHANNEL!!
Great video! Thanks. If you are in a country that doesn't have any Arch mirror you could use this command instead: su -c 'reflector --verbose --latest 10 --sort rate --save /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist'
I was just thinking to myself how I wanted to watch a tutorial on how to use arch efficiently and maintain and and then you released this video! Thank you very much! I very much enjoy your videos :D!
Its good to remember to merge .pacnews and .pacsaves files with the respective configuration files. This is the cause of a lot of breakages that the people who doesn't like Arch use to say that Arch it is unstable.
I wanted to thank you for this splendid video that helps me to maintain an ArchLinux distribution (EndeavourOS) ... this Linux distribution is installed for about 8 months and i have been following your maintenance recommendations without breaking my system ... Thank you so much and long live to your channel ! Phil
At 09:33 looks like the correct comand is: # pacman -Qtdq | pacman -Rns - ( with the "-" at the end) . I tried both, and it only finds the packages with the "-" at the end. Thanks for a lot of great video's. Clear and to the point.
Hi. A very helpful video! You asked to add ideas or what we do to maintain our arch system. I have ideas on both: (1) I enable periodic trim (not discard in fstab) by enabling fstrim.timer (sudo systemctl enable fstrim.timer); (2) I don't want to keep any build files from aur, which is why I add this to my fstab: none ~/.cache tmpfs defaults 0 0; (3) I don't want any updates to clutter my system, so I edited /etc/pacman.conf and have "CacheDir=/tmp/pkg"; (4) I want to reduce wear of my ssd (as number 2-3 suggest) so I build packages in RAM by editing /etc/makepkg.conf and changing "BUILDDIR=/tmp/makepkg"
Great tips. I'll check my journals as soon as I seat in front of my laptop :D Little less aggressive (than pacman -Sc) is paccache (arch wiki) paccache -r deletes all cached versions of installed and uninstalled packages, except for the most recent 3 paccache -rk1 define how many recent versions you want to keep paccache -ruk0 Add the -u/--uninstalled switch to limit the action of paccache to uninstalled packages. For example to remove all cached versions of uninstalled packages If you have a time please make a video about arch security. There is one on the channel but maybe something more extended?
THANK YOU for this video! This kind of instruction, explaining everything you do as you go along and why you're doing it, is sorely lacking everywhere!
Arch full system backup/restore would be good. Like in the scenario that mitigates hardware failure or the scenario of migrating to a new machine. (Tar backup/restore, clonezilla, etc?) An efficient way to avoid having to manually reinstall/reconfigure everything.
Would recommend 'ncdu' for fast and efficient check on your folders size. It's like an 'htop' for 'top'. With it you can navigate and delete unnecesary files very fast and easy.
Great, thanks again Ermanno!. I update once a week using Yay. Also cleanout orphaned packages and caches. Indeed, then Arch is a very stable system. Prior to the update I always check on which packages are being updated (read through the list, yes) so I can identify possible issues upfront. Works great.
@@eflinuxSome parts I forgot of course ;-) 1. I only use Pamac to 'browse' available software and get the right naming etc. Installation (or removal) I always do from the command line. 2. Updates and clearing caches etc I do by logging out, Ctrl+Alt+F2 and entering the console and then using the right yay commands. 3. When installing from the AUR I check in Pamac what the latest update date was > if too old (and depending on the type of software of course) I skip installation. Finally: when in the terminal and you don't exactly know what version to install just put in yay, followed by the name of the package, and hit Enter. You will get a list of all available packages, browse it and enter the number of the package you'd like to install. I usually don't go for the Git versions, but the stable or community ones. Cheers!
@@eflinux I love to keep it minimal too. And so do many other people. But I don't have much experience in building a theme like yours, usually I just tinker with my XFCE themes and be done with it.
Thank you again for this excellent video. In my setup, to remove orphans I needed to use the hyphen : root$ pacman -Qtdq | pacman -Rns - . The hyphen means to use stdin as input source for the command line.
Nicely done video and very handy. Thank you, Ernano. I've been playing with Arch on a dedicated ssd on my home machine for about five months now. I love this distro but am a little frustrated by it's "high maintenance" requirements. So for now Linux Mint is still my main OS and daily driver. Ya know, I kinda see Arch Linux as that beautiful and sexy girlfriend requiring HUGE maintenance demands on my part. Yeah, she's fun to be with but really...what a pain in the ass sometimes! LOL!
I am verry new to Arch Linux. Until now I was using stable but unfortunatley boring Debian :-) As a freelancer Java developer I was interested in a „Stable“ Distribution so I can concentrate and be focused in my job without beeing disturbed by the operating System. Dear Ermanno, I must say that you are the most reason whyI felt in love with Arch Linux 😍 Now I learned that a boring Distribution makes a boring Live. First I tried Gentoo and become verry comfortable with it and liked it verry much. But the often and verry long compile times hurted me too much. Then I found your channel. Now my live is much more excited and I learned so much how Linux works 😍 Peace
Great explanation, I use the `duh` as an alternative to `du` to give more friendly output, you forget to talk about `systemd-analyze` is really useful to speed up your boot time and security issues
As usual #Ermanno you are a class apart. 🎉 Great informative video. 🎉 Looking forward for Gentoo Linux video's as well. Please post them when you are able to spare your time. 🙏
Thank you so much for the video. Please upload lot of arch Linux videos. Also please make a video on arch Linux restore using timeshift from live arch usb.
Alright thanks, well, the process is more or less the same, as the Arch ISO installer doesn't come with a GUI. It could be done with the cli, but with the GUI it's much easier.
Hi everyone, I created a list of updated commands. You can find it in the video description or by following this link: gitlab.com/eflinux/arch-maintenance-commands.git
Handy indeed. Un gros merci. I use some aliases to speed things a bit. mr aliases the reflector update (it started as mirror), up (started as update) sudo pacman -Syu, and all (was upall in Arcolingo) for yay -Syu --no-confirm. This alias is from DT: alias ls='exa -al --color=always --group-directories-first'. Now if I could figure out why 90% of FontAwesome fonts are not showing in Polybar, which is finally behaving in Arco i3 ... It's a hair-puller right now. :)
Hi, im quite new in linux and i 'm learning so much with your videos. Should i be worried about installing qt based applications in gnome or gtk based apps in plasma?
I just installed Arch today, actually, and I was wondering how to get rid of my orphaned packages after floundering around with different graphics setups (Enlightenment with the Terminology emulator... never again). Nearly a gigabyte removed. Thank you!
Why not configure the journal vacuuming automatically, configuring with sane defaults will prevent the dreaded "partition full" (that's why /var should live on its own partition (or have a quota on btrfs)) HTH, systemd has a lot of neat features for us admins!
How to reset that reflector mirror list command In my previous arch Installation i ran that command and all the packages were downloading really slow I didn't know how to undo that.
I was a bit confused on the Reflector command regarding " if you have a 2 word country such as United States,,," you said put it in quotations? So id go "UnitedStates" or United-states or what? i apologize as i am super new and just didn't understand what you meant. how to form the command? EDIT: everything else in the video was superb, TY
Very informative video💯 but there's one problem I've seen with your website is that most of your link when opened, give a message that basically says that the file doesn't exist, I've tried several times with this video and others as well but the file cannot be found on your website, other than that your videos are great sir❤
Hi! Thanks for the feedback, yes, the link was still pointing to my old website. I will post a new one next week for the file on GitLab. Thanks for pointing this out.
many thanks for this useful video, while I remain connected to wifi I can't open any application directly, by shortcut or through link, so I have disable wifi to open any app, I'll appreciate your solution suggestion, regards
Nice one, buuuu...t recently a update chanced my Desktop-Settings on Manjaro. Set timeshift-snapshot back, helps only if One finds out what coursed it. Or??? Anyway went back to Arch. (-;
I just put a note on the video description. It doesn't actually make any difference. It's just the order of the switches are different, but the effect is the same.
@@eflinux started my system today evening and now I can connect to internet.didn't check the status of NetworkManager when the problem was there but the network connection icon on the bottom right kept refreshing again and again.will let you know if I have the same probelm again after next full system upgrade.
Warning - heads up to all. I know you meant well Ermanno, but I followed your commands recipe and it clobbered my Arch/Openbox/Tint2 VM. It wiped out yay (totally)(not found). So I git cloned it and got it running again, reconfigured, did mmaker again, reconfigured again and rebooted and yay works again in terminal, but the pamac gui to update is totally gone and I can't get it back. I now have to blow this vm away and start new. It's Spring - I've got other things to do. :(
Yah, I know. I don't understand it either. It's not the end of the world - just an inconvenience (ouch). I'll live. No harm, no foul. I still love your videos and the knowledge I get here :)
How do I maintain my arch Linux? fdisk /dev/sda --> d --> n --> w && freshinstall arch :-D It is the first time I saw how to do it with a running system - especially the point about not used dependencies is very useful! ;-)
This video is fantastic. Thank you very much for the excellent instruction. Every Arch user should watch this video. :)
Thank you so much Eznix!
@@eflinux i only trust you for my arch Linux tutorials
Huh...finally got this video...I'm obsessed with linux and now I'm in love with arch and surprisingly u released this video...a great thing for me sir💖
Glad you liked it!
This was great Ermanno, very helpful. I find it hard to remember all the pacman commands. Good to have it all in one spot to refer back to. Thanks for this!
I know the Arch Wiki exists , but having a human explain things as well as reference the commands is better for me and the way I learn.
Thanks Brett!
write a script and schedule it !
I am new to Arch, so I started watching all of your videos to learn using it. Very helpful. Thanks a lot!! Please upload more.☺️
Thanks! I will!
This is, without a doubt, *THE* best tutorial channel on UA-cam! From installing Arch to doing maintence and everything else YOU are the best!! BY FAR MY FAVORITE UA-cam CHANNEL!!
Thank you so much Chip!
Great video! Thanks.
If you are in a country that doesn't have any Arch mirror you could use this command instead:
su -c 'reflector --verbose --latest 10 --sort rate --save /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist'
Thank you so much for sharing this!
I was just thinking to myself how I wanted to watch a tutorial on how to use arch efficiently and maintain and and then you released this video! Thank you very much! I very much enjoy your videos :D!
Hey thanks! So glad it was helpful!
Its good to remember to merge .pacnews and .pacsaves files with the respective configuration files. This is the cause of a lot of breakages that the people who doesn't like Arch use to say that Arch it is unstable.
Thanks for sharing this!
@@eflinux No mate, thank you for this awesome channel.
I fix pacnew files every update
Thank you Master Ermanno for the great service. Delivered with amazing clarity and rich with detail.
Thanks! Glad you liked it!
No need for 'yay -Syu' just type in 'yay'. Great Vid btw
Thanks for pointing this out!
I do yay -Syu to update all in one command
@@PedroMosqueda I always do : "Sudo pacman -Syyu"
@@cloud-forge why Syyu though? ( I know what the command does, but I don't think it's necessary)
Very helpful guide! I've only been using Arch for about 6 months but I'm loving it so far.
Since i have an arch linux on my laptop i always check your channel for anything useful to learn. Thanks for your effort sir!
Most welcome!
i love your patience to reply all comments. ..no one did that :)
I love it and I enjoy the community:)
This is probably the most useful video you have uploaded. Thanks so much :)
Thanks René!
Well guys, hands down... this is the best Arch Linux UA-cam channel! Such a great content.
I wanted to thank you for this splendid video that helps me to maintain an ArchLinux distribution (EndeavourOS) ... this Linux distribution is installed for about 8 months and i have been following your maintenance recommendations without breaking my system ... Thank you so much and long live to your channel ! Phil
Nice..Keeping us updated.. Thanks.
Will do!
At 09:33 looks like the correct comand is: # pacman -Qtdq | pacman -Rns - ( with the "-" at the end) . I tried both, and it only finds the packages with the "-" at the end. Thanks for a lot of great video's. Clear and to the point.
Thanks! Glad it was helpful.
3 years old and this helped me out a lot ty sir
Hi. A very helpful video!
You asked to add ideas or what we do to maintain our arch system. I have ideas on both: (1) I enable periodic trim (not discard in fstab) by enabling fstrim.timer (sudo systemctl enable fstrim.timer); (2) I don't want to keep any build files from aur, which is why I add this to my fstab: none ~/.cache tmpfs defaults 0 0; (3) I don't want any updates to clutter my system, so I edited /etc/pacman.conf and have "CacheDir=/tmp/pkg"; (4) I want to reduce wear of my ssd (as number 2-3 suggest) so I build packages in RAM by editing /etc/makepkg.conf and changing "BUILDDIR=/tmp/makepkg"
Fantastic! Thanks for sharing this!
👏
I do not have sufficient good words to say about you. Arch is a great distro and you are making it better. Thank you.
So kind of you!
Great tips. I'll check my journals as soon as I seat in front of my laptop :D
Little less aggressive (than pacman -Sc) is paccache
(arch wiki)
paccache -r
deletes all cached versions of installed and uninstalled packages, except for the most recent 3
paccache -rk1
define how many recent versions you want to keep
paccache -ruk0
Add the -u/--uninstalled switch to limit the action of paccache to uninstalled packages. For example to remove all cached versions of uninstalled packages
If you have a time please make a video about arch security. There is one on the channel but maybe something more extended?
Thanks for sharing this!
THANK YOU for this video! This kind of instruction, explaining everything you do as you go along and why you're doing it, is sorely lacking everywhere!
Arch full system backup/restore would be good.
Like in the scenario that mitigates hardware failure or the scenario of migrating to a new machine.
(Tar backup/restore, clonezilla, etc?)
An efficient way to avoid having to manually reinstall/reconfigure everything.
Thanks!
Great work as always 💙
Thanks for the support!
Wow this video was PACKED with information I always assumed was much more difficult. This taught me a lot. Thank you.
Subscribed.
Thanks for watching and subscribing!
Would recommend 'ncdu' for fast and efficient check on your folders size. It's like an 'htop' for 'top'. With it you can navigate and delete unnecesary files very fast and easy.
Excellent point! Thanks for sharing!
a very nice GUI app is baobab! instant insights in where those disk hogs are
Thank you, danke dir 👍
You're welcome!
Great, thanks again Ermanno!. I update once a week using Yay. Also cleanout orphaned packages and caches. Indeed, then Arch is a very stable system. Prior to the update I always check on which packages are being updated (read through the list, yes) so I can identify possible issues upfront. Works great.
Thanks for sharing!
@@eflinuxSome parts I forgot of course ;-) 1. I only use Pamac to 'browse' available software and get the right naming etc. Installation (or removal) I always do from the command line. 2. Updates and clearing caches etc I do by logging out, Ctrl+Alt+F2 and entering the console and then using the right yay commands. 3. When installing from the AUR I check in Pamac what the latest update date was > if too old (and depending on the type of software of course) I skip installation. Finally: when in the terminal and you don't exactly know what version to install just put in yay, followed by the name of the package, and hit Enter. You will get a list of all available packages, browse it and enter the number of the package you'd like to install. I usually don't go for the Git versions, but the stable or community ones. Cheers!
Thanks for sharing this also!
Oh, I'm loving your theming. Can you please consider making a customisation video?
Sure! I usually keep my desktop very minimal though.
@@eflinux I love to keep it minimal too. And so do many other people. But I don't have much experience in building a theme like yours, usually I just tinker with my XFCE themes and be done with it.
Thank you again for this excellent video. In my setup, to remove orphans I needed to use the hyphen : root$ pacman -Qtdq | pacman -Rns - . The hyphen means to use stdin as input source for the command line.
Thanks for sharing Alex, this is also on the wiki.
Loved the video and also the exhaustive list of commands without having to use any GUI..
@EF - Tech Made Simple Great video as always sir!
Glad you liked it!
Keep it going like this!
Thanks! Will do my best :)
Nicely done video and very handy. Thank you, Ernano. I've been playing with Arch on a dedicated ssd on my home machine for about five months now. I love this distro but am a little frustrated by it's "high maintenance" requirements. So for now Linux Mint is still my main OS and daily driver. Ya know, I kinda see Arch Linux as that beautiful and sexy girlfriend requiring HUGE maintenance demands on my part. Yeah, she's fun to be with but really...what a pain in the ass sometimes! LOL!
Haha! So well said :)
Welcome to the elite
Enjoy
I am verry new to Arch Linux.
Until now I was using stable but unfortunatley boring Debian :-)
As a freelancer Java developer I was interested in a „Stable“ Distribution so I can concentrate and be focused in my job without beeing disturbed by the operating System.
Dear Ermanno, I must say that you are the most reason whyI felt in love with Arch Linux 😍
Now I learned that a boring Distribution makes a boring Live.
First I tried Gentoo and become verry comfortable with it and liked it verry much.
But the often and verry long compile times hurted me too much.
Then I found your channel.
Now my live is much more excited and I learned so much how Linux works 😍
Peace
your god send for linux users, thank you
Hey thanks!
That arch banner is awesome ngl
I love it :)
Great explanation, I use the `duh` as an alternative to `du` to give more friendly output, you forget to talk about `systemd-analyze` is really useful to speed up your boot time and security issues
Very helpful, thanks!
Glad it helped Mark!
Fantastic subject and video!
Glad it was helpful!
Pretty informative thank you 😊
As usual #Ermanno you are a class apart. 🎉 Great informative video. 🎉
Looking forward for Gentoo Linux video's as well. Please post them when you are able to spare your time. 🙏
Thanks for the feedback! I was just thinking yesterday about Gentoo...
Very useful video, thank you very much!
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you so much for the video. Please upload lot of arch Linux videos. Also please make a video on arch Linux restore using timeshift from live arch usb.
Thanks! I'll have to look in the channel, but I believe I did already a video on that topic.
EF - Tech Made Simple I searched everywhere. You had a video on restoring arch using timeshift but from live Ubuntu not arch.
Alright thanks, well, the process is more or less the same, as the Arch ISO installer doesn't come with a GUI. It could be done with the cli, but with the GUI it's much easier.
Great channel and video! thank you so much! Fantastic job!
Hi everyone, I created a list of updated commands. You can find it in the video description or by following this link: gitlab.com/eflinux/arch-maintenance-commands.git
The site is off
Thanks, David, for the heads-up. I forgot to change the link when I changed site. I'll repost asap.
Hi David, the list of commands link is now in the video description.
@@eflinux thanks
Great Ermanno, your the best!!!
In fish you can do `pacman -Rns (pacman -Qtdq)`.
Same as base but without the $ sign.
Yes I added a note the video description. Thanks.
Great video. Well worth understanding what you're doing before deleting random stuff though :)
Cool! I just cleared 10G of waste... Thank you sir!
Glad it helped!
Quite like the systemd method combined with the timed entry for updating mirrors i set to run 1 a week. Can always run manually also
Just look up reflector in the wiki to set up your specific params
Excellent video (again!), thank you!
My pleasure!
Thank you so much. This is very helpful
Awesome stuff, keep it up!
Thanks!
In Australia it seems that the servers offshore connect a hell of a lot faster than any on shore.
Very useful, thnaks.
Thank you for this!
More videos like that!! Love them :)
Thanks!
Nice video, keep them coming.
Thanks!
Handy indeed. Un gros merci. I use some aliases to speed things a bit. mr aliases the reflector update (it started as mirror), up (started as update) sudo pacman -Syu, and all (was upall in Arcolingo) for yay -Syu --no-confirm. This alias is from DT: alias ls='exa -al --color=always --group-directories-first'. Now if I could figure out why 90% of FontAwesome fonts are not showing in Polybar, which is finally behaving in Arco i3 ... It's a hair-puller right now. :)
Thanks! It's great info!
@@eflinux You're welcome. :)
best linux channel
Very informative 🔥🔥❤️👌👍
Thank you great video!!
Glad you liked it!
Great video Sir
Very nice.
Thank you! Cheers!
Hey Ermanno! Question: What key combination do you use to clean up the terminal...? NIce video, as always. Thanks!
Thanks James! It's ctrl+L.
Hi, im quite new in linux and i 'm learning so much with your videos.
Should i be worried about installing qt based applications in gnome or gtk based apps in plasma?
Thanks :) No, it is ok, no worries.
Which fish theme and wallpaper are you using it looks cool
The fish theme is Pure, the wallpaper is here: drive.google.com/file/d/1Xhcn9Zh3X8VPm3VAy1HEs213RRCWmueU/view?usp=drivesdk
thanks for all the knowledge you share - can you also share that wallpaper?
Sure! Here it is: drive.google.com/file/d/1Xhcn9Zh3X8VPm3VAy1HEs213RRCWmueU/view?usp=drivesdk
Your accent is satisfactory
I am trying to improve :)
I mean, I like the way it sounds
oh thanks! :)
I just installed Arch today, actually, and I was wondering how to get rid of my orphaned packages after floundering around with different graphics setups (Enlightenment with the Terminology emulator... never again). Nearly a gigabyte removed. Thank you!
Glad I could help!
Can you explain me/us how to show the time of the last command you run, like in your prompt? How did you customized the prompt just for that feature?
Hi! That's the theme I have for the shell fish, it's called "pure".
@@eflinux thank you didn't know about it
More comments like Michael 👍
Why not configure the journal vacuuming automatically, configuring with sane defaults will prevent the dreaded "partition full" (that's why /var should live on its own partition (or have a quota on btrfs)) HTH, systemd has a lot of neat features for us admins!
That’s also a great idea :)
How to reset that reflector mirror list command
In my previous arch Installation i ran that command and all the packages were downloading really slow
I didn't know how to undo that.
I feel I could ask you any Arch question, and you'd have the answer for me. Do you have a Discord channel?
No I don't, yet.
Thank you for the video! Could you please make a link to the commands you show in this video?
Will do first thing tomorrow! Thanks!
@@eflinux Thank you, Ermanno! By the way, thanks to your videos, I've installed arch linux on my pc, which is so great! Thanks for your work!
Thank you so much! I'm very happy to hear that I could help!
How you are getting suggested command in your terminal sir.
What desktop environment do you use on your main machine?
On my production machine KDE, on my laptop GNOME (for now).
apparently there is a reflector timer systemd service you can enable
Cool Thankyou
du -sh /var/log/journal/
cannot access '/var/log/journal/': No such file or directory
That directory does not exist by default. You have to create it to make systemd journal permanent.
I was a bit confused on the Reflector command regarding " if you have a 2 word country such as United States,,," you said put it in quotations? So id go "UnitedStates" or United-states or what? i apologize as i am super new and just didn't understand what you meant. how to form the command?
EDIT: everything else in the video was superb, TY
9:06 You should be able to just remove the dollar sign for it to work in fish.
Thanks for sharing this. I'll check it out.
how can i have command autocompletion like you?
We can just type yay and hit enter to update yay.
❤️❤️❤️
How to enable command suggestions like you had in the video which file or program do i need to install or change please guide
I was using the Z shell (zsh) with auto-completion. I have a video for that on the channel.
Very informative video💯 but there's one problem I've seen with your website is that most of your link when opened, give a message that basically says that the file doesn't exist, I've tried several times with this video and others as well but the file cannot be found on your website, other than that your videos are great sir❤
Hi! Thanks for the feedback, yes, the link was still pointing to my old website. I will post a new one next week for the file on GitLab. Thanks for pointing this out.
No problem sir and do let us know about the links, thank you sir!
Will do!
many thanks for this useful video, while I remain connected to wifi I can't open any application directly, by shortcut or through link, so I have disable wifi to open any app, I'll appreciate your solution suggestion, regards
are you using zsh?
In this video I was using fish.
Nice one, buuuu...t recently a update chanced my Desktop-Settings on Manjaro. Set timeshift-snapshot back, helps only if One finds out what coursed it. Or??? Anyway went back to Arch. (-;
Can we have something like this for debian?
Oh interesting! Sure! Bit it's going to be more or less the same.
That is true.
apt autoclean && apt autoremove, latest debian also uses systemd so journalctl is the same, bleachbit is your friend!
9:30, isn't it supposed to be "pacman -Qtdq"
I just put a note on the video description. It doesn't actually make any difference. It's just the order of the switches are different, but the effect is the same.
@@eflinux oh, learnt something new today :)
I did full system upgrade and now I can't connect to internet.
How is the status of network manager?
@@eflinux started my system today evening and now I can connect to internet.didn't check the status of NetworkManager when the problem was there but the network connection icon on the bottom right kept refreshing again and again.will let you know if I have the same probelm again after next full system upgrade.
Warning - heads up to all. I know you meant well Ermanno, but I followed your commands recipe and it clobbered my Arch/Openbox/Tint2 VM. It wiped out yay (totally)(not found). So I git cloned it and got it running again, reconfigured, did mmaker again, reconfigured again and rebooted and yay works again in terminal, but the pamac gui to update is totally gone and I can't get it back. I now have to blow this vm away and start new. It's Spring - I've got other things to do. :(
It sounds to me that packages have been removed instead of cached packages. Yay should not have been removed with those commands.
Yah, I know. I don't understand it either. It's not the end of the world - just an inconvenience (ouch). I'll live. No harm, no foul. I still love your videos and the knowledge I get here :)
i dont maintan my arch linux but i use rm -rf *
How do I maintain my arch Linux? fdisk /dev/sda --> d --> n --> w && freshinstall arch :-D
It is the first time I saw how to do it with a running system - especially the point about not used dependencies is very useful! ;-)
Glad it helped Dennis! And thanks for your support!