Category: Linux

It’s been a minute since I’ve last used Trimage. I probably installed it when I had initially setup Arch Linux on this system. Curious about whether or not an image that was part of a pull request I was reviewing could be improved, I launched the app. Much to my dismay, nothing happened. No flash…

Continuing with the theme from the last couple of weeks, we’re going to talk about an issue that cropped up when upgrading my Arch Linux system. After resolving a couple of other issues with specific packages, I attempted to upgrade my system with yay -Syu and was greeting with yet another error: This error was…

As mentioned last week, I waited a bit too long to upgrade my Arch Linux install recently. While overall the upgrade went smooth, I did run into a handful of issues, this one being the second of three. After resolving the issue with rpm-tools and rpmextract, I hit a snag with another set of packages,…

I’ve been in the middle of a big project, and reluctant to update my Arch Linux rig, even though I usually keep my system updated very regularly. Nearing 400 packages to be updated, and the project in question finished and deployed, today was the day. While not always the case, going too long without updating…

If you run Arch Linux, or any rolling release system with frequent updates, you have probably asked yourself how often should you be updating it. I’ve run Arch Linux off and on over the last decade and have been through a myriad of update frequencies. Recently, having come back to Arch Linux yet again, I…

There are times I need to update a single package with pacman, even though I try to update my Arch Linux regularly, once per week if possible. Typically, this happens with packages that are network connected and a minimum version is required to run. Discord, the chat service, forces this need very regularly. Risks involved…