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Category: Arch Linux

Rolling release distribution focused on simplicity and code elegance

  • Wayland coming to Arch Linux

    Wayland coming to Arch Linux

    The Wayland compositor has landed on Arch Linux, although not offering much at the moment, you can run X inside of Wayland (and that’s about it), because there are not too many usable apps that are Wayland ready. If  you only run apps made for X (ie. you are not developing any Wayland app or testing anything), you are only adding an additional layer with no extra functionality.

    Here is the info straight from the Arch Linux dev-public mailing list:

    Some news from the front:

    – Wayland is in extra, thanks to Tom G. for moving it.

    – Mesa and cairo have their wayland backend enabled in testing, thanks to Andreas R.

    – Weston is in community-testing. You can now play with the first wayland compositor/windows-manager.

    In case you want to test this you have to enable the testing repos in Arch (see the Arch Wiki Official repos page for information on how to do this).

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  • Watch Netflix on Archlinux

    Watch Netflix on Archlinux

    Finally someone came up with a way to watch Netflix on Linux. The Official workaround is Ubuntu only, but the Archlinux community has repackaged the software, which consists on the Windows version of Mozilla Firefox and a patched wine with Silverlight support.

    For installing you can go 2 ways:

    1- Get it from the repository

    Add the following to /etc/pacman.conf:

    [archnetflix]
Server = http://demizerone.com/$repo/community/$arch
    [demz-repo-community]
 Server = http://demizerone.com/$repo/$arch

    Both the database and the packages are signed, so you will have to add my key to pacman’s trusted key list.

    # pacman-key -r 0EE7A126

    verify it using the info below and then sign it with the local master key:

    # pacman-key --lsign-key 0EE7A126

    next, update your pacman database

    # pacman -Syy

    and install the netflix script,

    # pacman -S netflix-desktop

    2- Install it from the AUR

    Using your favorite AUR helper (Complete list here, I recommend packer) do:

    packer -S netflix-desktop

    This will pull all the dependencies and compile the software (this compilation takes a LONG time, I have a ThinkPad with i5 processor and 8gb of ram, and took like an hour)

    IMPORTANT: If you install the AUR version and later decide to use the repository, you have to REMOVE the netflix-desktop package from your system including the dependencies to avoid any problems later, then you can go ahead and reinstall the package using the repository version.

    So, what’s the difference between the AUR version and the repository version?

    The repository version has precompiled packages so you don’t have to compile them yourself

    For more information you can check the Un-Official Arch Netflix repo