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Archlinux Cheat Sheet: Configuration Files Pacman Xorg Configuration

This document provides an overview of common Archlinux configuration files, commands, and packages. It summarizes key Pacman commands for installing, removing, updating, and searching for packages. It also outlines configuration files for system settings like locales, makepkg, and Xorg. Useful groups, fonts, browsers, audio/video packages are listed as well as links for additional Archlinux support.

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Archlinux Cheat Sheet: Configuration Files Pacman Xorg Configuration

This document provides an overview of common Archlinux configuration files, commands, and packages. It summarizes key Pacman commands for installing, removing, updating, and searching for packages. It also outlines configuration files for system settings like locales, makepkg, and Xorg. Useful groups, fonts, browsers, audio/video packages are listed as well as links for additional Archlinux support.

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Archlinux Cheat Sheet

Configuration Files Pacman Xorg configuration


/etc/rc.conf pacman -S package-name pacman -S xorg
Main configuration File, Installs package Installs xorg
modules, daemons, network. pacman -R package-name pacman -Ss xf86-video
/etc/locale.gen Removes package List generic video drivers
Locale Config pacman -Rns package-name Xorg -configure
/etc/makepkg.conf Removes package, deps, and nvidia-xconfig
Makepkg configuarion file config file Configure a xorg.conf file
/etc/pacman.conf pacman -Suy
Pacman config file Updates the system [New versions of Xorg should
/etc/abs.conf pacman -Ss string detect everything, install hal
ABS config file Search string in the package DB with pacman and then try
/etc/mkinitcpio.conf pacman -Q package-name startx]
Initrd cofiguration Search the package in system
/etc/conf.d/ pacman -Ql package-name In order to boot in X you
Daemons configuration List files whithin the package should add a login manager to
/etc/pacman.d/ pacman -U package-name.tar.gz the daemons array (GDM,
Mirrors config for pacman Installs a given package file Slim, Kdm), use the startx
/etc/rc.d/ pacman -Qe script or change the initlevel
Daemons start scripts List explicit installed packages and login manager in
pacman -Qm /etc/inittab
List AUR packages
pacman -[Q|S|R|U] --help Useful man pages: xorg.conf,
Shows helps for the given option inittab
makepkg -s
Auto install deps for AUR
packages

Useful man pages: pacman.conf,


pacman, makepkg

Useful Groups Other Common Packages


gpasswd -a user group pacman -S ttf-ms-fonts ttf-dejavu ttf-bitstream-vera
Add user to group: Some fonts
lp pacman -S gnome gnome-extra gdm
For printers Installs Gnome, extra apps and the GDM login manager
audio pacman -S elinks
For audio Text mode browser
optical pacman -S firefox jre flashplugin
Acces to optical drives Installs Firefox with JRE and Adobe Flash plugins
storage pacman -S vimdiff
Acces to storage devices Useful to check differences betwen files, like a .pacnew
video config file
Access to video devices pacman -S alsa-lib alsa-utils
Installs alsa, then run alsaconfig
Useful man pages: useradd, pacman -S codecs gstreamer0.10-bad gstreamer0.10-ugly
gpasswd, groups gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg gstreamer0.10-ugly-plugins
Propietary codecs

Llinks and information


Forum: http://bbs.archlinux.org
Wiki: http://wiki.archlinux.org
Aur: http://aur.archlinux.org
IRC: #archlinux, #archlinux-offtopic at Freenode

* Use man to get the manual pages, in some cases, a given command may had more than one man
page, to acces all of them use 'man -a command' or 'man N command' if you know wich page it's.
* Search the web, the wiki and forums at any troubles
* Always check .pacnew files
* Always read news and forum before a full system update
* Check logs for important messages and errors (/var/log/)
* Read the PKGBUILD before install any software from AUR

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