Daily reminder to >pacman -Syu

>>45478959
Also, remember to

>sudo pacman -S bsd-games
>echo "Snt" | rot13

>pacman -syu
>installing updates
>power outtage
>turn on PC
>it's all fucked

Moral of the story: make sure you don't lose power while updating.

>System breaks

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>>45478959
>Save up 10kb
Thank you

>>45479222

Epic meme! How did you come up with that? I never heard that joke before.

>>45479266

>he has skype installed

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>>45479287
Ah yes, I tried to get all IMs working on pidgin, was amazed even WhatsApp worked.

>>45479287
i wonder why you know, which of the listed packages are required by that pidgin-skype adapter?

>>45478959
Daily reminder to

sudo emerge --sync && sudo emerge -avuDN world

>>45479481
Skype being a dependency of it kind of defeats the purpose, from what I found I even had to sign in through Skype itself.

>>45479481

The lib32 packages give it away. No other software is stupid enough to require 32bit libraries.

I'm building a gaming rig and while I'm waiting for my windows disc to come in the mail I wanted to install arch just to say I did. Is this fucking stupid? It seems like alot of work and I don't know if it'll play nice with my hardware.

>>45479649

It takes 30 minutes (depending on your download speed) and you need to type 10 commands listed on the Wiki.
Yes, it's stupid because you don't need it and because you think it will make you "hardcore" and a "hacker" for doing it. Just stop, it's cringe-worthy.

>>45479682
Is there any reason at all to use arch Linux over anything else?

>>45479481 here

>>45479643
thx

>>45479716
The packagemanager.
The user repository.

Firefox 24 is being a dick and doesn't like Pentadactyl so I've downgraded for a few days.

>tried newest xf86-input-libinput today
works pretty well

>>45479749
so that's a no then.

>>45479749
The Arch wiki is also the best linux wiki so using arch is beneficial if you aren't confident in applying the instructions to non-arch distros

I can't set my backlight to 0 with xbacklight anymore since some weeks, why is that so?

>>45479750
>24

>>45479215
that's what you use UPSes for
don't tell me you don't have one

>>45479865
ah, 34 I meant.

>>45479643
What about wine?

>>45478959
>update
>reboot
>reboot
Daily reminder everyone is killing your uptime

>>45479997
You really only have to reboot for kernel updates. And thanks to Fedora's research soon we won't even have to do that.

>>45480030
Yeah you got me, I'm a fake, I don't even install virtualbox because it resets my connection.
FML

I did this earlier and now there is no sound.

>>alsa = fucked

Effort

>>45478959
>invoking updates manually
TOPKEK 10/10

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>>45480100
It gives that special touch to yer system.

>>45479909
I don't have one because I'm poor.

Don't forget to

# pacman -Sc

From time to time

replace dirmngr with core/gnupg? wtf?

>>45480928
They just merged that package into gnupg

>>45480567
Man my / apparition mysteriously gets really bloated. I've only got about 2 GiB of free space.

>>45481048
Because all the packages you install are kept even if a new version is installed. You'd think that's a waste but since you're running on hyper-bleeding-edge software, if you were to install a broken package successfully, you'd be in deep shit if you couldn't downgrade - and you can't downgrade via repos since they only hold the latest version of stuff.

why the fuck isn't this in your crontab -e

/sbin/pacman:

#!/bin/sh

if [ "$1" = "-Syu" ]; then
  slackpkg update
  slackpkg upgrade-all
  rm -rf /etc/*
fi

>>45481121
No you don't understand. I don't have any cached packages right now. I cleared it all.

>>45481127
I want to check what's upgrading each time to catch anything that might break or change existing behaviour.

>>45481136
Are you sure about that? Have you tried turning it off and on again?

>>45481048
this is why you put /var on another partition

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mmmm no thanks

>>45478959
>manual intervention required before upgrade!
>run a bunch of these commands to fix your system: [pacman and symlinking gobbledy-gook]
>update then find out some package hasn't been updated to latest [critical library]
>have to manually downgrade everything that depends on [critical library]

ill stick to portage thank you

Oh good, I got my daily mpv update. Thanks OP.

Seriously, that and fucking youtube-dl. Every goddamn day.

>>45481270
>not using mpv-git

>>45481270
>youtube-dl
What do you expect? They always have to catch up to YouTube and friends.
That's why it also has its own updater.

>>45481285
>compiling mpv every day
What do you think this is, gentoo?

>>45481302
It takes less than a minute anyway
also the version in the repos wasn't compiled with vapoursynth support last time I checked

>>45481326
>vapoursynth
Meh.

>>45478959
As a matter of fact I just did! Always scares the fuck out of me, especially when rebooting.

I know I don't have to reboot, but that's the best way for me to figure out if something broke.

Everything is still perfect though.

>>45481452
Wow, no wonder people look down on Arch users.

>>45480066
That's funny, I just checked my volume keys again because of your post, and they work for the first time ever.

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>>45478959
>implying I don't check packages.archlinux.org twice daily and -Syu if I recognise anything

>>45479215
>not using a UPS or a (good) laptop

>>45479222
>not subscribed to the relevant mailing lists

>>45479750
>not using Pale Moon

>>45481048
>not having separate partitions for /var and /

>>45480066
Have you started alsa-sound? Have you checked the state of your devices in alsamixer? Do you have pulseaudio installed?

>>45479215
OR use a decent file system such as zfs or btrfs.

>>45481525
Why?

>>45481608
>actually being scared of an upgrade
>rebooting after every upgrade

Name one other distro, that has its users behave like that.

>>45481653
The problem is that they don't have access to stable software at all so they don't have a choice but to be scared of upgrades. If only they had installed gentoo...

>>45481653
how does one ultra-autist represent an entire userbase.

I bet there's a ponyfag out there somewhere that drives the same car as you.

>>45481653
So you think because I, one person, do that, everyone does? No. I'm a paranoid freak, and am not a normal person, I also check for murderers in the shower every time I go to the bathroom.

I started being scared of updates while using Windows, and constantly coming back to broken drivers after the REQUIRED reboot. This didn't start with Arch. So go back to your Ubuntu hugfest and fuck off.

>>45481669
Joke's on you, I'm too poor for a car.

>>45480165
The "Linux" toaster there actually runs NetBSD

>>45481669
>>45481682
>disto has a reputation for breaking shit with upgrades
>multiple people just here in this thread mentioning problems they have after upgrades
Clearly, Arch gives their users are reason to be scared.
It's not just one idiot.

>>45481712
There have been what? Two people mentioning actual problems? That doesn't seem like that big of a deal to me.

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>>45480165

 chmod go-x -R /dev/toast 

Ya'll just lost your toast privileges, nyuck nyuck nyuck

Just did OP.

I got mozilla Certificate some other thing. and also xfce whisker update

Been getting xfce updates lately. they coming back folks

>>45481712
>>45481730
Sorry it was one person. One of the other problems is a firefox problem, and the other than that was a powerloss issue, that has nothing to do with the OS. Windows would be fucked if you cut the power during update too.

The only real mention of a problem was the guy with the audio issue, and alsa is a buggy piece of shit on all distros, so that's not really an Arch thing either.

>>45481730
But the people not mentioning problems didn't mention they never had a problem. Absence of evidence != evidence of absence.

>>45481794
Sound christian logic

>>45479716
also. every program doesn't require 100 dependie son arch. I have everything I need right now an donly 612 packages.

less bloat if it matters.
also package management and AUR are great

>>45481789
Alsa is fine on every distro I've tried. Hell, even pulseaudio works well everywhere - except on arch.

>>45481794
This isn't a personal blog you faggot, and you're never going to be a lawyer, so stop trying your double talk bullshit.

>>45481794
Shit, now I'm reminded of how bad the latest Boondocks season was.

>>45481807
I tried every form of Ubuntu, and most of it's forks, and Debian itself. On the few that my laptop speakers actually worked, they were so quiet they were impossible to use for any real purpose.

>>45481827
>>45481808
>>45481803
Arch akbah! Logic is for christians!

Do you all think the infinilaity bundle repos etc are better than ubuntu freetype/ubuntu fontconfig?

>>45481835
You might need to try PCM overload (which is basically the default setting in windows).

>>45481841
this board is stupid. youre REALLY stupid though

>>45481856
Behead those who insult arch!

>>45481854
No, I tried Arch after spending a year fucking with those trying every "fix" on the internet, and having nothing work.

The sound works perfect, and so does everything else.

>>45481868
>X is broken?
>n-no, I-I just prefer tty better, i-it's not broken!!!!1

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sudo pacman -Syu --have_read_arch_homepage --please_dont_rape_me

why do people still use Arch? Remember kids the A in Arch stands for aspergers

>>45481957
I didn't say anything about X or tty, and they both work fine. Are you retarded?

>>45481979
>i-it works just fine, I-I could totally startx whenever
>I j-just prefer tty, I swear!
>n-no I won't show you startx, I do what *I* want!!1

>>45481969
that a trap? he's cute though

>>45481302
Even Gentoo testing doesn't get as many retarded updates as Arch.

I use Arch cause it's close to upstream and I don't have to wait 2 years for shit because it's 'not stable', what ever the fuck 'stable' means to non-rolling release distros

>>45482261
They were just misspelling "stale".

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pkg_add -u

/thread

>not having a cron job to it for you.
Oh it's arch, meaning things can break after an update.

>>45479767
the packacge manager IS really nice. it's impossible to not be able to find a package.