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Note to me: Makepkg was unable to build libpng12 package

While Trying to install VirtualBox from AUR, and when installing the dependencies, I got this error.

==> Starting build()...
/tmp/yaourt-tmp-keripix/aur-libpng12/libpng12/./PKGBUILD: line 26: patch: command not found
==> ERROR: Build Failed.
Aborting...
Error: Makepkg was unable to build libpng12 package.

It was solved by install base-devel package

How to install nslookup - Arch Linux

If you work with Ubuntu, Debian or Fedora, as soon as you have your default installation, you will probable have nslookup utility installed, but, if you are like me, working on Arch Linux, you will have to install it.

Just enter this.

sudo pacman -S dnsutils

And you will nslookup and other dns utilities ready to run.

How to rebuild vboxdrv on Arch Linux

Everytime I upgrade my kernel on Arch Linux, VirtualBox stops working, and everytime, I can't remember the command to rebuild it.

So I am copying here how to do it, so I can come and read it.

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 IMPORTANT NOTES:

- Run "vbox_build_module" as root every time your kernel is upgraded, to

Error opening library libdiscid.so.0

If you have installed Picard in Arch Linux, and you try to explore the CD "CD Lookup", you may get an error like this:

Error While reading CD

Error opening library: libdiscid.so.0 cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

That is because, you may have not installed libdiscid.so.O, so go ahead and install it from yaour.

yaourt libdisc

Picard Tagger - Automatically tag your mp3 music files

I do not have a very big mp3 music files collection, just 2 to 3 gigs of them, but I have made it over the years, and some of the original CDs are missed, so I can not import them again.

Have your Arch Linux always ready for an upgrade

As Arch Linux is a rolling release distro, there are updates available almost all days, and maybe is not a good idea or not practical to upgrade your system all days, maybe not even all weeks.

vi: /usr/bin/view exists in filesystem

Today, after a long time not updating my Linux Operating system (Arch distro), I decided to start a

sudo pacman -Syu

How to install Chromium in Arch Linux (Google Chrome)

Almost everybody have heard about Google Chrome, for those who not, it is the Google browser, it is a real good, fast Internet web browser, as almost everything from google.

The drawback of it is, that it is only available for Windows, so what about us, Linux Operating System users?, well there is an option and that is to install chromium, which according to Wikipedia is "Chromium is an open source web browser which Google Chrome is based on.[1] The project's aims are to build a safer, faster, and more stable way for all Internet users to experience the web".

Well it is not actually Google Chrome, but it is a good alternative for Linux users, now lets see how to install it on Arch Linux.

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