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    Create custom live cd from existing installation?

    Hi, so I wanted to create a live cd of my VM's Arch Linux installation and make it bootable. It should be the exact replica of what installation I have. I went ahead and checked this forum: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=131036 But I didn't understand one of the following replies...
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    [SOLVED] Ubuntu 18.04.4 LTS fails to boot properly after deleting partitions

    I don't know where to post this but here's my issue: I had Ubuntu 18.04.4 LTS with Windows 8.1 dual boot. Today I accidentally deleted all the partitons in that hard drive except my ubuntu partition. I even deleted my system partition. But I had backed up my home folder before rebooting the...
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    Add a specific user to get sudo privilleges using shell scripts ONLY

    Hey so I wanted to create a shell script so that a user is added in which the user has sudo privilleges. My code went like this: #!/bin/bash useradd liveuser ; echo -e "liveuser\nliveuser" | passwd liveuser usermod -aG sudo liveuser su liveuser exit It did create the user with the password but...
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    Create custom themes for the xfce environment?

    Hey, I was wondering if it was possible to create a custom themes using 48 * 48 pixel png images as icons. I don't know how to CREATE a theme. I don't find any answer to that in the internet. I will continue to create the theme icons only if I get a confirmation answer. It's ok to just modify...
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    xfce4 in live cd?

    Is it possible to include some packages and the xfce4 DE in arch linux Live CD?? I would like to have this so that users will boot into a DE instead of a CLI interface. Don't forget that I want some packages to be installed too. Help is appreciated. -Cheers
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    Zenity - Create new user and password creator

    Hi, Is there any way to use zenity to create new user along with a password. I would like to create a shell script of it. I know python very well but not much about shell scripting. My first try was (absolutely wrong): $data=zenity --password echo $data useradd -m liveuser passwd liveuser $data...
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    yay not installing in Arch linux

    Hello again, After a fresh install of Arch Linux, I went ahead and made a shell program (.sh) which has these lines: echo Installing yay in this machine git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/yay.git cd yay sudo makepkg -si But it shows an error stating like this: ERROR: Running makepkg as...
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    Specific packages inclusion in Arch Linux?

    Haven't been here for a long time... :rolleyes: Like the title suggests, is it possible to include specific files and packages in a live CD installer of Arch linux. And is it also possible to download specific packages when Arch Linux starts up using pacman? More specifically, the Chromium Web...
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    Is it possible to run Steam on Arch linux?

    Hey, I was wondering if it was possible to run steam in Arch linux.. I also want it to run Steam in big picture mode and enable steam proton
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    dhcpcd.service does not exist (Virtualbox)

    "superboy" again... When I was installing Arch Linux, I found out that when I typed systemctl enable dhcpcd.service it said that the service did not exist! I skipped this thinking it was not much of a big deal. But after the installation, I tried to ping google.com. And it failed to ping. So I...
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    Arch on virtualbox - Installation failed!

    I followed the arch wiki and this video: But I couldn't install arch wiki because after booting it goes to the grub command line. I tried it again and again but it still doesn't work. Is there any solution to this or is this video fake?
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    Custom GUI for Linux

    Hey a linux noob here! I was wondering if it was possible to create a custom GUI for linux so that it would look like a console style GUI. Are there specific tools for this? Do those tools require complete knowledge of linux? Can I also edit the splash screen image on boot up? It would be good...
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