February 2021 - Page 4

How to change the default operating system in Arch Linux (for UEFI and systemd-boot)

Posted by Alex On February 18, 2021

This instruction applies to all boot loaders that implement the Boot Loader Specification and/or Boot Loader Interface, such as systemd-boot. If you have a modern computer (no older than seven years at the time of writing), then it most likely uses UEFI instead of BIOS and, therefore, uses systemd-boot to boot, which is usually mentioned in the Arch Linux installation...

Analogue of the --force option in pacman

Posted by Alex On February 18, 2021

If you update or install a new package, then if the files included in this package are already present in the file system, the update/install operation is aborted and the files that are already present in the system are displayed. In my practice, the reasons are usually packages installed with pip and the same packages that are trying to install...

How to run small Python code in Bash

Posted by Alex On February 18, 2021

Bash is not only and even not so much shell built-in functions as command line programs (utilities). By running these commands and transferring the received data to the pipeline (through the pipe), you can automate a variety of things, programming of which in other programming languages can take a lot of effort. This post will show you how to run...

How to completely uninstall a package along with dependencies on Arch Linux (as well as BlackArch and Manjaro)

Posted by Alex On February 18, 2021

This tutorial uses pacman as the package management (uninstallation) program, but you can also use pikaur or yay instead, since the options discussed are the same for all these package managers. Related: Automatic installation and update of AUR packages A typical command to uninstall a program that will remove all package files: sudo pacman -R PACKAGE Indeed it will remove...