I have installed Void Linux on a Raspberry Pi yesterday, planning to install a bunch of old games as well as DosBox on it.

But after the installation I noticed that nethack wasn't in the arm repos, despite being in the Void x86 and x86_64 repos as well as the arm Raspberry Pi OS repos.

Is there any plan to add nethack in the arm repos of Void Linux?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/14067380

Unmasking the hidden gems of Void Linux | Animesh Sahu

I have no idea who manages the repo or anything, but just wondering about when kde6 will make it to the repo if anyone has any idea

Also a good chanco for me to ask about how the repo works lmao

Despite using Linux/Void I still don't know much about it

How do you go about setting up XMonad with XMobar on Void? Installing it via XBPS results in errors about not being able to find the module 'XMonad', and using Cabal fixes that, but leads to XMobar not being able to find my font and uses a pixelated font instead.

In case anyone needs it...

Thought I'd ask here first, then report if it's a bug. Haven't used Nmap on Void before. I installed the latest version available in the repos (7.94). Still, no matter what combo of switches I use, it never shows hostnames. I even tried -R (reverse DNS lookup), it still doesn't report the hostnames. On the other hand, Advanced IP Scanner (Windows) resolves hostnames just fine. Avahi daemon is running, though that shouldn't make a difference as far as I know. Samba is also installed and smbd and nmbd are running just fine.

Fresh Void install: looks like I have an old issue with flacs where songs are interrupted for a second or less. I came from Arch where this bug was fixed after a recent update to some package (maybe pipewire or flac itself?).

I've noticed many Void packages are not in the latest version like on Arch, so maybe I can use a flatpak or other to solve? Thanks for any help on this!

[edit] Looks like the fix is on flac 1.4.2, here the changelogs, Void version is still at 1.3.4

I've "partially solved" the issue using my fav player thru flatpak

Due to driver issues and lack of time and energy to deal with them I've been using first Windows and then Mint for several months. And now I finally switched back to Void, the best Linux distro!

So glad to use up-to-date repos again (not to mention installing software from websites on Windows and using Flatpaks on Mint)!

I was searching for the password of the live session "anon".

After trying : admin, root, live, void and anon I give up and search on web for that. Found myself on Reddit with deleted answers.

Well, so I'm posting it here, it will probably be useful to others.

• What is the password for "anon" live session please?

• It's simply voidlinux

• Oh yes, quite silly, thanks buddy.

Voidlinux new iso images released.

Replacement for lxappearance in wayland compositors now in voidlinux.

https://github.com/WillPower3309/swayfx 0.2_1 is now available to install through xbps. There is also xbps-src template of swayfx-0.3.

Summary of my method of installing Hyprland on Voidlinux.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/117605

Got bored and made a custom /etc/issue file for my Void Linux machines. It displays a colour Void Linux logo along with kernel version, tty number and date on login. The file is here just copy it to /etc/issue or you can preview it using agetty. Feel free to change it to suit.

It's been some months, and kdenlive is still listed as orphaned. Anyone know how packages become un-orphaned?

Also, if anyone else is having the same problems, this fork worked for me (the missing dependency is glaxnimate.

https://github.com/classabbyamp/void-packages.git new/glaxnimate

Thanks @w0yak for mentioning about this community there. Im always ready to handover this community to void team if they need.

I'm not a big fan off some of the Void Distro-reviews which just show the installer, so I've made a review of how it looks after a few years of daily use.

I've missed out a load of nice features, because it's already a fairly waffly review.

I set up a new machine with Void, and it took an embarrassing amount of time. I wanted a script to install Void with 1 line of bash from a live iso, so I could look cool next time. Here it is:

xbps-install -S curl

curl https://malinfreeborn.com/autovoid.sh | sh

The idea is to place the script on a public site, execute it, then get the following:

• a full WM
• all dotfiles set up
• all home files

...basically, a full setup.

Results

It's 2 lines of bash, rather than 1, which is less cool.

I remove the need for a password by making the system auto-login to a user in the wheel group. I've tried adding the option to set a variable, password="mypassword123, which would then automatically add that variable as the main user's password, but something's gone wrong there.

The user gets ssh keys pulled from gitlab as a kind of backup.

To Do

• Atm I can use unison to pull in ~ files from my server, but it'd be nicer to have this done automatically, before the reboot. I guess that'd require another line for authentication.
• See if something can pull the script without curl, so the script can be a single line of bash
• I might see about puting in arbitrary usernames/ hostnames later.
• Any other suggestions?