Month: May 2022

How to download a package without installation in Arch Linux and Manjaro. How to download the AUR package source code

How to download a package with pacman (from standard repositories) To download a package without installing it, use the -w option: sudo pacman -Sw PACKAGE By default, the package will be downloaded to pacman's package cache directory, with the --cachedir option you can specify any other directory to save the package to: sudo pacman -Sw --cachedir DIRECTORY PACKAGE For example,...

How to change the country in the Play Store

Features of changing the country in the Play Store You can change the country in the phone in different ways, depending on the specific task. For example, to change the country for websites, it is enough to use a proxy or VPN. To change the country for applications using GPS, you can use one of the applications that fake GPS...

How to set up Favorites and add folders in Wine File Manager? (SOLVED)

Wine File Manager is similar to Windows Explorer. It can be opened with the command winefile There you can see several labels and drives. Among the labels you will find: My Computer Documents Trash / (Linux filesystem root) My Computer contains all disks connected to Linux. The “C:” drive is what is located in the ~/.wine/drive_c/ folder. The “Z:” drive...

How to make VirtualBox virtual machines destroy on computer restart

How to use VirtualBox on Linux so that virtual machines and their settings are not saved The desire to completely destroy virtual machines is extraordinary and may be related to security and privacy. However, there are at least two ways to achieve the desired effect: the virtual machines will be destroyed as soon as the computer is turned off. 1....

Why doesn’t Linux with Persistence keep settings after reboot? (SOLVED)

Persistence is a partition on a flash drive with a Live Linux system, thanks to which the programs and settings installed on the system are saved. A live image with a Linux distribution can be written to a USB flash drive. The result is a bootable USB flash drive with Linux. That is, you can boot into Linux and use...

“Failed - Network error” when exporting from phpMyAdmin (SOLVED)

phpMyAdmin allows ones to export databases and individual tables (as well as individual rows) in the web interface. In the latest stable version of phpMyAdmin 5.1.3, users encountered a problem when exporting data from tables and databases to a file. Regardless of the selected settings, instead of downloading the file, an error is shown: Failed - Network error This is...

“Error: failed to commit transaction (invalid or corrupted package)” (SOLVED)

When updating or installing packages in Arch Linux, Manjaro and their derivatives, you may encounter the “error: failed to commit transaction (invalid or corrupted package). Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.” issue. Full error log: :: Retrieving packages... libinih-55-2-x86_64 15.4 KiB 385 KiB/s 00:00 [############################################] 100% (40/40) checking keys in keyring [############################################] 100% (40/40) checking package integrity [############################################] 100% error:...
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