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#1 2009-06-17 09:01:37

Mr Pink57
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From: a van down by the river
Registered: 2009-05-30
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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 smile

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.

pink

Last edited by Mr Pink57 (2009-06-17 09:02:54)


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#2 2009-06-18 01:48:37

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 05:57:13

Mr Pink57
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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.

pink


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#4 2009-06-18 06:23:10

tomk
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Registered: 2004-07-21
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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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