Another night where I can’t get to sleep properly. Might as well write another post.
gentoo
Still my favourite Linux distro and every few months I search youtube for any recent videos that have been uploaded covering it. Recently I found a good video series on it’s installation. I’ve installed it a bunch of times but I enjoy seeing other people’s methodology and can always pick up little tips and tricks.
The series is on the channel of Zebedee Boss and currently has 3 parts. They are long, but worth it. See Part 1 below.
arch
One of the other golden children when it comes to Linux for me. I’m currently running it on my Linode VPS and as you would expect, it runs great.
There has been some gap in time since I’ve used it, enough of a gap you find that the AUR helper yaourt is no longer being developed. A quick google found yay to be highly recommended as yaourts replacement.
Being a minimal VPS I did have to install a couple of extra packages first.
# pacman -S binutils
# pacman -S base-devel
$ git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/yay.git
$ cd yay
$ makepkg -si
Then you can search and install away just like the old days.
$ yay -Ss <package to search for>
$ yay -S <package to install>
And then to update all the packages
$ yay
Pretty nifty stuff, but that’s Linux through and through.