blendOS

blendOS is Arch Linux, made immutable, declarative and atomic. https://blendos.co

blendOS

blendOS is Arch Linux, made immutable, declarative and atomic. https://blendos.co

9/17/2024

paru error libalpm.so.14

I just updated my system (gnome track) and it seems that the version of paru installed needs libalpm.so.14 and because it is missing, it can not install AUR packages anymore.? Does anybody have a suggestion? paru: error while loading shared libraries: libalpm.so.14: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory...

Solution:

fixed

Zezengorri

9/16/2024

Can we make akshara run 'grub-mkconfig' only if grub is installed?

I have a deep deep seething hatred for grub that started back in the opensolaris days. I run systemd-boot or refind on all my machines. Can we make the exec call to grub-mkconfig in akshara be configurable based on the presence of grub packages in the expanded system.yaml or perhaps run as a hook? I am a python developer and would be happy to code this up and send over an MR.

VisioAer

9/11/2024

Issue with installing AUR packages Duplicati and Visual Studio Code: /opt empty

I'm playing with BlendOS to see if it can be a daily driver tried to add Visual Studio Code and Duplicati, added the following to /system.yaml:

    aur-packages:
        - 'visual-studio-code-bin'
        - 'duplicati-beta-bin'

    aur-packages:
        - 'visual-studio-code-bin'
        - 'duplicati-beta-bin'

...

Solution:

please do not file duplicate issues

otsegolo

9/8/2024

Akshara TypeError when updating

I usually update every couple of days, but I haven't been on my computer in a while, but when I try to update it gives the attatched output, though the main error is: ```Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/akshara", line 489, in <module> command() File "/usr/bin/akshara", line 295, in update_system...

Solution:

umount -l /usr && wget https://git.blendos.co/blendOS/system-tools/akshara/-/raw/main/akshara && sudo mv ./akshara /usr/bin/akshara

umount -l /usr && wget https://git.blendos.co/blendOS/system-tools/akshara/-/raw/main/akshara && sudo mv ./akshara /usr/bin/akshara

...

message.txt

#1 mixed number hater

9/4/2024

new /etc/shells is instead at /usr/etc/shells; old /etc/shells is kept

/etc/shells isn't updated when akshara runs, instead it's being put at /usr/etc/shells on account of this line in akshara.hook:

mv /new_root/.update_rootfs/etc /new_root/usr/etc

mv /new_root/.update_rootfs/etc /new_root/usr/etc

...

krishnakumar

8/31/2024

How to declaratively list the flatpak applications to install?

In BlendOS, how can we declaratively list the flatpak applications to install?

Solution:

to do it declaratively, though, you could add stuff in commands to run flatpak install $THING as your user

213793

8/30/2024

hi was trying to get cuda toolkit and cudnn working on my blend need some help out here

Hi i was trying to get cuda toolkit and cudnn to get working on blendos installed cuda and cuda-tools 12.6 available on aur but even after installation i could not find nvcc in the entire installation any way out possible? i customized my system with plasma instead of gnome as per the instructions on your sites with the track infos got everything working teaked the system to work with my other requirements but cant get my ML projects running on it i would appriciate some help from your side on this please....

krishnakumar

8/30/2024

How to install the nix package manager on BlendOS?

Can the community please guide me how to use the nix package manager on BlendOS?

Solution:

the install script will be able to run with full permissions, call it from system.yaml

krishnakumar

8/30/2024

my external displayport monitor does not work

On a fresh installation of BlendOS V4, none of the desktop environments detect my external Displayport monitor. How to fix this?

Solution:

It needed two aur packages, evdi and displaylink. Followed by enabling the displaylink systemd service

#1 mixed number hater

8/29/2024

Akshara loops when bpkg isn't available (likely not related to being bpkg specifically)

Under the assumption that bpkg was available as an Arch package, I tried to put it in the packages section. When running Akshara, it seemed to loop for a bit before exiting. (I understand that bpkg isn't available as a package after looking at its docs more, but I don't think this loop is the intended behavior. Additionally, to not waste time and bandwidth for other stuff to run before getting to packages/aur-packages and finding that a package doesn't exist, at the start there should be a check to see if all the packages exist before starting installation....

log-bpkg-thing

#1 mixed number hater

8/29/2024

`visual-studio-code-bin` broken

Upon running VS Code, installed via the AUR package visual-studio-code-bin package, it prints this:

/usr/bin/code: line 11: /opt/visual-studio-code/bin/code: No such file or directory

/usr/bin/code: line 11: /opt/visual-studio-code/bin/code: No such file or directory

...

Solution:

Use the flatpak or the tar.gz

vscode-errors

NopeNopeGuy

8/28/2024

Icons broken when app is installed from container on gnome

Solution:

Is GNOME not an officially supported use-case? The website has a lot of screenshots on GNOME, I am assuming it isn't updated yet to reflect this. The fix for the issue was simple, edit StartupWMClass and remove the capital letters, but I am oh-so-sorry for wasting your very valuable time on this....

whoisollie

8/28/2024

issue explained in picture

hi everyone, sorry for being so brief, its just that i really need to make a directory in shown directory to place a file from my desktop into as im trying to get gpu passthrough working in kvm, so if any of you could help me out on this, i would really appreciate it. thanks in advance and have a nice day

Solution:

Use the commands part of system.yaml to preform all operations that touch these parts of the system.

Senzenfrenz

8/26/2024

Strange Boot Behavior v4

Every Once in a while boot gets stuck on "dev/sda2: clean xxx/xxxxx files xxx/xxxxxx blocks". It takes a few minutes then it displays some text very short and reboots. This reboot only takes a few seconds to boot into blend os. Anyone knows whats causing the first boot stuck problem? Updated a few times, over the last few weeks, still all the same.

Solution:

It seems I fixed it. The simplest thing because it is documented on the official page: https://blendos.co/faq/#why-are-my-aliases-not-showing-up-on-fish In there: "The plasma-track is not working". Did it so far no more failed boots. Will update here if there's still something wrong and if I get 10 or more boots now that work in a row I will consider this solved. Edit after a week: Solved, no issues at all.

madesho

8/18/2024

Can't launch a terminal using commands

Hello, I want to create a keyboard shortcut to launch the included terminal console quickly, I tried using gnome-terminal and everything else that I found online but I can't make it work. Also tried launching it using the alt+F2 run dialog but it's still not working, what can I do?

Solution:

The binary for Console is called kgx

PanglimaKegelapan

8/16/2024

No Android Apps (waydroid)

just fresh-installing blendOS 🫡 today & realized that there is no Andoroid App 😭 option in the "system". what should i do? is there a way to adding waydroid the way it should be? 🤔

Solution:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Waydroid#Installation ignore package install, this is done for you, just run the commands

whoisollie

8/11/2024

virt-manager refuses to communicate with o. s.

When I try to connect the qemu/kvm thing it always throws an error shown in this picture: ...

Solution:

so you need to enable libvirtd and edit the libvirtd config

Hesham

8/11/2024

UX feedback: can you add the sha256sum of blend os 4 to the site

what is the blend os 4 iso sha256sum

Solution:

check the download page

limby-giga-Shakman🇪🇬

7/31/2024

stability issues on plasma track

If I boot system with Plymouth system hangs at boot only responding to numlock (not capslock) and (when i boot without splash) system is laggy and after some use plasmashell crashes and other apps (systemsettings firefox) (Notice in picture how panel is transparent)...

Victoria

7/19/2024

"GPGME error: no such device", followed by lots of "missing required signature"

I am trying to set up a VM in Proxmox, but the installer can't install some packages. ISO version is 35fda9f4. From what i can tell, a few batches of packages are able to install completely, but at some later point this issue arises, and the installer just loops downloading packages, failing the signature verification and trying again....

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