Newbie here, I was trying to update and got that:
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: installing ffmpeg (2:9.0.1-4) breaks dependency 'libavcodec.so=62-64' required by freerdp2
:: installing ffmpeg (2:9.0.1-4) breaks dependency 'libavutil.so=60-64' required by freerdp2
:: installing ffmpeg (2:9.0.1-4) breaks dependency 'libswresample.so=6-64' required by freerdp2
:: installing ffmpeg (2:9.0.1-4) breaks dependency 'libswscale.so=9-64' required by freerdp2
:: installing audit (4.2.1-1) breaks dependency 'audit=4.1.4' required by lib32-audit

Finally, I hav succumbed to Thinkpads, I have recently bought a new Lenovo Thinkpad E16 Gen 3, with an AMD Ryzen 5 230 and a Radeon 760M Graphics card. It came with Microslop Trashdows 11, it was so bad the OS that I Installed different Linux distros just to tinker with them, when I installed Arch Linux.

My experience so far is really really great, it does not feel like Linux at all, I installed QEMU and Virt-Manager because I'm studying Computer Science and the overall experience is going very very well.

Context: i’m a relatively new arch user and i’ve never used any linux os or distro before now.

Recently i finished setting up my first linux install manually, as a dual-boot system on a laptop with windows and archlinux on separate, discreet physical drives. The arch & kde setup is installed in an lvm inside a luks container with only my efi partition remaining outside, and i made grub my primary boot-manager. Took me a couple days of messing around with it to get everything working, but now it’s totally useable and butter smooth.

My question is the following,

I repaired an old thinkpad w540 a couple weeks ago but it no longer supports windows due to hardware limitations, so i’m gonna put arch on that too. I want a similar set up as my initial installation described above. I recently became aware that theres an “easy-mode” installation program that you can run to have all this shit automate itself onto your hd with minimal user input.

I’m tempted to use that for the sake of saving time, but i’m not clear on whether it offers the same level of control w/ regard to the actual set-up of my drive partitions and logical volume encryption?

Tldr: can i use “archinstall” and still configure my installation such that the filesystem defining my root directory can be installed in an lvm, inside a luks container? I’m a linux newbie, pls be nice 😭

Linux noob here

I have recently installed Arch OS with KDE Plasma on my ASUS TUF GAMING MODEL A17. I haven't encountered any problems up until today, when i went to start up my computer for the first time after installation. When the booting finished it presented a black screen with a frozen underscore in the top left corner of the screen.

I used the command dbus-run-session startplasma-wayland and it seem to have worked, however, its only a one time use. If i turn my computer off and on again the same thing happens.

I dont understand whats going on, why this is happening, where to start, what to do, etc.

Basically im saying i need some help!!!!!

Specs:

Laptop: ASUS TUF GAMING A17

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 4600H

GPU: GTX 1650 Mobile

RAM: 8gb

Any other info will gladly be given if ya need it

I have an older laptop that runs arch and software packages can take ages to compile. I was thinking of setting up some way to have them build on a more powerful computer and use a network share to install them through a custom pacman repo. I found some old posts supporting this idea but it doesn't seem like anyone actually has a mostly built out solution I can implement.

Hey arch linux people. My tool linked here is called checkpac. is allows you to view every package on your system (and if it is outddated) as well as every package not installed if you use the -r (remote) flag. it allows simple lookup and ig it is outdated or not on every thing package

Would you guys check it out?
its on github and the aur

i added last updated time and popularity in all of the searches i would appreciate it.

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/checkpac

https://github.com/zeroz41/checkpac

Hace meses que tengo la idea de instalar arch Linux, pues vengo de un Linux que literalmente me cortaba las alas (el Huayra 5) y ahora que la PC en la que tenía ese sistema operativo dejo de funcionar, estoy usando esa excusa para poder instalar finalmente el arch. El problema viene a qué tengo el internet tan pero tan lento que funciona en Klb, por lo que luego de varias pruebas con el comando archinstall y que no funcione (porque es tan bajo el internet que la descarga de paquetes se cancela automáticamente) me puse a investigar y me quedaría instalar poco a poco desde la consola. Soy lo suficientemente obstinado para pasar horas leyendo documentación (que es poca) sobre como instalar desde la consola, por lo que les pregunto, es demasiado? Si no lo es, tienen algún consejo?

I'm having an issue: I'm new to Arch Linux and I'm using KDE Plasma. Whenever I close my laptop lid and open it back up, the system doesn't wake up. I'm forced to hard reboot it every time, losing all my open work.

I updated my system today and after updating, every time I unplug and plug my DAC (which is often due to using a KVM with my work computer), a new identical device shows up. And the device sometimes works and sometimes doesn't. There were no mentions of pipewire in pacman.log today. The previous time I updated was 8/16 and there was an update to kpipewire . But the problem only started today. Any ideas?

xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:~$ pactl list short | grep Schiit
61  alsa_output.usb-Schiit_Audio_Schiit_Gunnr-00.analog-stereo  PipeWire    s32le 2ch 48000Hz   SUSPENDED
61  alsa_output.usb-Schiit_Audio_Schiit_Gunnr-00.analog-stereo.monitor  PipeWire    s32le 2ch 48000Hz   SUSPENDED
62  alsa_input.usb-Schiit_Audio_Schiit_Gunnr-00.analog-stereo   PipeWire    s24le 2ch 48000Hz   SUSPENDED
51  alsa_card.usb-Schiit_Audio_Schiit_Gunnr-00  alsa
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:~$ pactl list short | grep Schiit
61  alsa_output.usb-Schiit_Audio_Schiit_Gunnr-00.analog-stereo  PipeWire    s32le 2ch 48000Hz   SUSPENDED
365 alsa_output.usb-Schiit_Audio_Schiit_Gunnr-00.analog-stereo  PipeWire    s32le 2ch 48000Hz   SUSPENDED
61  alsa_output.usb-Schiit_Audio_Schiit_Gunnr-00.analog-stereo.monitor  PipeWire    s32le 2ch 48000Hz   SUSPENDED
62  alsa_input.usb-Schiit_Audio_Schiit_Gunnr-00.analog-stereo   PipeWire    s24le 2ch 48000Hz   SUSPENDED
365 alsa_output.usb-Schiit_Audio_Schiit_Gunnr-00.analog-stereo.monitor  PipeWire    s32le 2ch 48000Hz   SUSPENDED
366 alsa_input.usb-Schiit_Audio_Schiit_Gunnr-00.analog-stereo   PipeWire    s24le 2ch 48000Hz   SUSPENDED
364 alsa_card.usb-Schiit_Audio_Schiit_Gunnr-00  alsa
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:~$ pactl list short | grep Schiit
61  alsa_output.usb-Schiit_Audio_Schiit_Gunnr-00.analog-stereo  PipeWire    s32le 2ch 48000Hz   SUSPENDED
365 alsa_output.usb-Schiit_Audio_Schiit_Gunnr-00.analog-stereo  PipeWire    s32le 2ch 48000Hz   SUSPENDED
380 alsa_output.usb-Schiit_Audio_Schiit_Gunnr-00.analog-stereo  PipeWire    s32le 2ch 48000Hz   SUSPENDED
61  alsa_output.usb-Schiit_Audio_Schiit_Gunnr-00.analog-stereo.monitor  PipeWire    s32le 2ch 48000Hz   SUSPENDED
62  alsa_input.usb-Schiit_Audio_Schiit_Gunnr-00.analog-stereo   PipeWire    s24le 2ch 48000Hz   SUSPENDED
365 alsa_output.usb-Schiit_Audio_Schiit_Gunnr-00.analog-stereo.monitor  PipeWire    s32le 2ch 48000Hz   SUSPENDED
366 alsa_input.usb-Schiit_Audio_Schiit_Gunnr-00.analog-stereo   PipeWire    s24le 2ch 48000Hz   SUSPENDED
380 alsa_output.usb-Schiit_Audio_Schiit_Gunnr-00.analog-stereo.monitor  PipeWire    s32le 2ch 48000Hz   SUSPENDED
381 alsa_input.usb-Schiit_Audio_Schiit_Gunnr-00.analog-stereo   PipeWire    s24le 2ch 48000Hz   SUSPENDED
379 alsa_card.usb-Schiit_Audio_Schiit_Gunnr-00  alsa

Hey guys, I wanted to share a fun challenge I just completed on my legacy daily driver. I successfully installed pure Arch Linux completely by hand via pacstrap, but with a twist: ZERO USB drives or physical media involved. I pulled the ISO and booted it directly into the memory using 'copytoram' on a machine with only 4GB of RAM.

Here are the specs of the battle station:

- Laptop: Síragon NB3100

- CPU: AMD C-60 (Dual-Core @ 1.0 GHz)

- RAM: 4GB DDR3

- Storage: 315GB HDD partition (/dev/sda4)

Post-Install & Rice details:

- Desktop: Lightweight MATE running with Breeze-Dark theme and Hack Nerd Fonts.

- Display Fixed: Display manager (LightDM) was messing with my numpad mapping on boot, so I nuked it. I'm bypassing it entirely by logging securely into TTY1, which triggers 'startx' automatically via my conditional ~/.bash_profile script.

- Xorg Monitor Fix: Fixed my dual-monitor multi-port setup in real-time by mapping physical video ports (VGA-1 as primary Samsung monitor @ 1366x768, while HDMI-A-1 and LVDS-1 are turned off) hardcoded inside ~/.xinitrc.

- Terminal: Kitty terminal emulation backed up by Picom compositor for true hardware-accelerated background transparency blurring (set to 85% opacity).

- Extras: Custom Bash prompt with ANSI colors, 'ILoveCandy' eating up package rows in pacman.conf, compiled 'yay' manually from source to avoid bloated binary tools, and running Falkon browser on QtWebEngine to keep memory usage at a bare minimum.

DeepSeek literally told me I was insane for pushing this hardware to its limits. What do you guys think? Am I certified or should I go back to Ubuntu? 🗣️