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#1 2009-06-17 05:01:37
How to get hwd back
So I did a reinstall of Arch and noticed that hwd is no longer available in the repo. Well I was able to get Arch going with the no Xorg option, but I really wanted hwd back as it was a lot easier to setup my Synaptic mouse side scroll (but I wanted it before a WM setup).
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Yaourt#Easy_Install
Add this to your /etc/pacman.conf
Then do Pacman -Sy yaourt
Once that is done do yaourt hwd
And enjoy hwd 
I doubt this will be major for a lot of you but it sure helped me out a lot.
EDIT: Other benefit I got from installing yaourt this soon was being able to compile a lot of packages before I got to my DE/WM.
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Last edited by Mr Pink57 (2009-06-17 05:02:54)
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#2 2009-06-17 21:48:37
- skottish
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Re: How to get hwd back
If it's not in the regular repos, it's usually in AUR:
http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=26913
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#3 2009-06-18 01:57:13
Re: How to get hwd back
I understand that. That is why I added the mirror to my pacman.conf so I can install yaourt which allows me to access AUR without a web browser or a gui front end.
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#4 2009-06-18 02:23:10
- tomk
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Re: How to get hwd back
Two things, for anyone reading this:
1. hwd was deprecated because there are better ways of doing what it does.
2. Installing yaourt from a repo so you can access the AUR is certainly easy, but it is strongly recommended that AUR users should learn the underlying processes first. Full details in the wiki.
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