Dave's Wiki

This page is read only. You can view the source, but not change it. Ask your administrator if you think this is wrong.

===== Arch Notes =====

==== VirtualBox ===

After installing the ''virtualbox'' package, you won't be able to run VMs until you:

<code>
sudo modprobe vboxdrv --force-vermagic
</code>

If you don't do this you'll get an error about needing to run ''/sbin/vboxconfig'' as root, but that program doesn't exist. 
 :/  

This solution was found [[https://forum.manjaro.org/t/vboxdrv-exec-format-error/39335|here]].

You'll also want to install the ''virtualbox-guest-iso'' package if you're running windows as a guest.

==== pacman ===

 * [[https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pacman/Rosetta|pacman commands and their dnf, apt, etc, quivalents.]] (highly useful!)

==== pkgfile ===
Searches the repositories to find which package contains a particular file, use the [[https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/pkgfile:pkgfile]] command.  This command isn't installed by default on Manjaro.  It's in the ''pkgfile'' package.  

To install: <code>
sudo pacman -Sy pkgfile
sudo pkgfile --update #You'll want to run this if its been a while to (re)build indexes
</code>

To find which package contains a command: <code>
pkgfile -vb <file>
</code>

Command line arguments
^ Argument ^ Description ^
| -v | Verbose | 
| -b | Search for binaries |

Dave's Wiki

User Tools

Site Tools

Page Tools