Tag: arch

RIGOL screenshots from terminal on Arch

I've used to store screenshots from the RIGOL DS1054Z oscilloscope on the USB, which I then took out of the scope and inserted (on the third attempt obviously) into the laptop, then copied the screenshot PNG files from the USB to the target location. But it can be done much faste…

Upgrading wiringpi on Raspberry Pi 4

I have had a problem with the gpio command on Raspberry Pi 4. Checking it's version with gpio -v produced the following output: gpio version: 2.50 Copyright (c) 2012-2018 Gordon Henderson This is free software with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. For details type: gpio -warranty Raspber…

Fix platformio avrdude input/output error

I have get to work on the very low priority side project with the codename bee weighter yesterday. It is not meant to weight the actual bees, but instead their entire house to determine if it is a full of honey that could be extracted. However, I got greatly slowed down by the un…

Nginx on Arch using Ansible pt.3

See also part 1 and part 2. Digging deeper after successfully made use of the template for the nginx.conf.j2 in the previous post I tried to utilize the virtual hosts template accessible in vhosts.j2 by copying the template and referencing it locally (the thing same I did with wi…

Nginx on Arch using Ansible pt.2

This is an update to the post I made a week earlier. Issue got no reaction whatsoever on GitHub so far. For short, The original issue described the fact, that running the associated Ansible Galaxy role would fail on every subsequent run on Arch based systems, because of the dupli…

Comprehensive guide to pkgfile

Let's consider some examples of how to get the package file names and paths on Arch based system. Let's start with the command that is a bread-and-butter, pacman package manager. Determine which package(s) own a file To find out which package owns a file, two very similar approac…

Nginx on Arch using Ansible

Since Arch, Nginx and Ansible are already all pretty mature tools by themselves, I though that installing Nginx on Arch system using Ansible playbook would be a matter of seconds. But judging from an actual experience, it is a little bit harder. The official ansible nginx role do…