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I have been quiet for a few months, the reason being I had an opportunity to develop new interesting things and I have been experimenting with some other technologies while trying to find the best use cases. Meanwhile, I received a comment about a package that I have been maintaining for Arch Linux and I had no available time to respond or update my AUR package. If you remember from my previous post Packaging Go for Arch Linux Tutorial, I like maintaining AUR packages but it gets time consuming when you need to track new releases and update version, SHA and commit hashes manually by hand. I had to come up with my own niche solution. ...

Getting Started In this tutorial, I will be showing how to package Go application for Arch Linux User Repository (AUR). We will be opening an AUR account and go through PKGBUILD template and follow Arch’s Wiki guidelines for Go. By the end of the tutorial, you will be able to upload your own Arch package that uses Go to AUR. The Requirements Git Go Arch Linux x86_64 AUR account Setting up AUR account and SSH key We will fill up the username and the email in this form, as well as the most important one public ssh key. The rest are optional. ...

Getting Started Hello everyone, in this blog I will help you bootstrap your arch linux setup in 5-10 minutes, and teach you where you can look into when you need help. Arch Linux has been one of the most difficult distros to setup until the new convenient archinstall script. I will be using archinstall script in this guide. It is known with its non-exhaustive user friendly TUI installation phase. First of all, ensure you install the ISO from Download Page, Arch is used within the whole world so don’t be scared of picking the closest mirror to yourself. All the mirrors have SSL/TLS enabled, the contents are the same you don’t need to worry about it. Also archlinux-x86_64.iso and archlinux-YYYY.MM.DD-x86_64.iso correspond to the same ISO, there is no difference. ...