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Here is a good description of the new installation method:
http://ebalaskas.gr/wiki/archlinux/netinstall

Arch GUI package managements seems to come and go. Some are just to dangerous to use and some have dependencies that get broken.
Now there is a GUI front end for the great pacman that only depends on X:
PacmanXG4 is yet another GUI package manager but this one is pretty safe and also lets you update your AUR packages.

It gives a nice overview over all the options that pacman (and Yaourt) have to offer.

And why do you need it? Eh well you don't - but it is nice to search for a package and get info the easy way before you install it so why not?

You can use it to find your fastest mirrors, remove orphans, update the system - the works!
It is also a good tool to learn pacman because it will show you what commands it is executing.

To start pacmanxg4 you need to start it like this
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But there is a little helper that will keep track of your updates that is more suitable for updating both the standard repos and AUR:
Kalu wil keep track of updates from your standard repos and also what you have compiled from AUR.
Kalu might be all you need - In my case I have a problem to keep all my AUR stuff updated. Kalu tells me when it is time to react. Also I can mark packages that are not installed if I want to wait for a certain release etc - and Kalu will inform me about it:

So does this mean that Arch has become newbie friendly?
No certainly not!
Try any other distro and gain some experience and then try Arch:
These nice and easy tools do not replace the the important stuff between the Keyboard and the chair....

I use Grub legacy.
And I use e4rat to speed up boot time.
The problem: is that Arch has changed the path from /bin/systemd to /user/lib/systemd/systemd This needs to be altered wherever present in your boot process.

The solution:
Edit /etc/e4rat.conf and alter this line from:

to

Save and life is good again

I have altered the Arch wiki to reflect the change

Lately we get a PGP key not trusted error when we update the Tor-Browser in Arch based distros (Manjaro Arch++++).
You can normally update your AUR apps with:

But Tor-browser will fail.
To get it to work I did a:

The last number is the key ID and may vary it is published here

and then:

after that the update went just fine.

More here

I have this laptop that works OK but on every boot I get Load Kernel modules failed.

So I decided to use the systemd way to get rid of it:

This showed me the load kernel module error and the PID -117 - so I drilled down further with

This showd me the following:

Startx does work regardless of this error message.

Since startx was the "problem" ; I need to check the config file for it in /etc/modules-load.d/
here I found the file startx.conf
I opened it with nano and it did only contain one word:

The thing is that starx works but systemd keeps giving me the load kernel modules error on every boot so I decided to comment it out like this;

Would this stop the GUI from starting after a reboot? Time to find out...
I rebooted and everything was fine
The error message was gone (and maybe the boot was a litle bit faster).
The system check is clean as a whistle after this fix:


If I needed to fix this?
No - everything worked - but that error message was anoying

Thank you! I used to get that a lot until my netbook crashed. Indeed, annoying!

Downgrade PHP7 to PHP 5.6


Here you migh get a pgp key error so you need to get the signature of the maintainer:


Edit the server conf:

Comment out php7 and add the php5 stuff like this:

then restart the server:

Now you are running php5 but you will need to adjust mysql too I will get back to that...