Snaps is a cross-platform; application, packaging and deployment system; created by Canonical and originally designed for Ubuntu. However, the snaps package manager is now available for most distributions, including Arch. All the application libraries are […]
Occasionally, when I need an application on Arch Linux that either isn’t available or is poorly maintained, I often find its available as a snapcraft/snaps package. Snaps packages are provides by Canonical and are intended […]
VS Code is an increasingly popular IDE for coding in Python, created by Microsoft. This version is available from the AUR. You can install MS VS Code with the following. There is also an open […]
If you’re looking to do the same thing on Ubuntu 18.04 – checkout my previous post. Check the python version – hopefully you’ve got the latest 3.x version. Python2 is now deprecated but you’ll need […]
i3 does not support compositing and true transparency is achieved using picom – a standalone compositor for Xorg. This is already installed and running on my system at start-up: Here we can see that i3 […]
Life is simple again with this great little tool! You can find out more about it from their website, https://youtube-dl.org, but as you might be able to guess – it allows one to download video […]
This is a handy command line tool that can calculate subnets for you. For example. It should be available in the community repository. If you’re using pamac, you can check with. And the install it […]
nvpy is a great lightweight note taking and simplenote client application. To use this application, first create a simplenotes account if you don’t already have one. Search the AUR for the correct package. Here I […]
Ventoy is a great tool that allows one to very easily create a bootable multi-boot live OS USB flash drive. When installed, the Ventoy USB will be presented as a FAT32 partition. This is where […]
Here I am importing the root CA certificate from my FreeIPA server. Once you have the root CA file, copy it to /etc/ca-certificates/trust-source/anchors. However that is not enough and you need to run update-ca-trust. First, […]
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