Monthly Archives: December 2014

I was struggling to add an unofficial repo for amd catalyst. When I tried to add the key I get a strange error. “connecting to dirmngr failed” simplest hack to solve it is to give the following command from root. sudo -i dirmngr < /dev/null this will create necessary stuff for gpg. after the pacman-key… Read More »

This command finds the fastest mirror. The contry option is to narrow down the search as well as other options. reflector -p http -c ‘United Kingdom’ –threads 2 -f 5 -n 5 –sort rate > /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist If you don’t want to disturb mirrorlist file then skip the last part. reflector -p http -c ‘United Kingdom’… Read More »