Odds and ends for my Arch desktop
- Magnus Therning
After the previous setup steps I found the next task was to add a few odds and ends really were needed before proceeding to other major things, like audio, email, and such. Several of the things I needed are available from AUR so to make things easier I started by adding archlinuxfr
to my /etc/pacman.conf
:
--- pacman.conf_orig 2009-05-09 18:47:19.825013872 +0100
+++ pacman.conf 2009-04-26 08:22:05.471685249 +0100
@@ -70,6 +70,9 @@
# Add your preferred servers here, they will be used first
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
+[archlinuxfr]
+Server = http://repo.archlinux.fr/x86_64
+
# An example of a custom package repository. See the pacman manpage for
# tips on creating your own repositories.
#[custom]
After that I updated the package listings (pacman -Sy
) and installed yaourt (pacman -S yaourt
).
After this I could easily install the other packages I need:
- nautilus-dropbox
- encfs
- pam_mount
- keysafe
- hpodder
- twitux
Only pam_mount needed some extra configuration. First I added two lines each to /etc/pam.d/gdm
and /etc/pam.d/login
:
auth optional pam_mount.so
session optional pam_mount.so
Then I modified /etc/security/pam_mount.conf.xml
to allow users to have their own configs, that’s done by uncommenting the line
<luserconf name=".pam_mount.conf.xml" />