Arch Linux

Running and Maintaining Arch Linux

System Maintenance

Package Management and Updates

• use pacman -Syy && pacman -Syu to fully update the mirror list and then update the system.
• use pacman -Qi to query the status of a specific package
• user pacman -Ss to search for a package by name or keyword

Notes and Gotchas

A list of things to remember or pay attention to while using Arch

• Libreoffice and Librewriter dictionaries may not work and you may get a “No Dictionary available” error message when launching the spellcheck tool. I had to install the english hunspell package with the following: sudo pacman -Sy hunspell-en_us

Hardware Notes

• GPU configuration under Linux
• Lighting: paru -S openrgb see OpenRGB notes
• Yubikey
  • Install the configuration app: paru -S yubico-authenticator
  • The pcscd.service is required:
    1. sudo pacman -Sy pcsclite ccid
    2. sudo systemctl enable pcscd.service
    3. sudo systemctl start pcscd.service
  • Launch the Yubico Authenticator app, it should be able to read and manage the key

Distributions based on Arch

• CachyOS