Category: Manjaro

✎ Last updated on 2018-06-27 at 11:20 EDT

1. Configure pacman to use Wget

   Edit pacman.conf

   $ sudo nano /etc/pacman.conf

   Uncomment or add the following line

   XferCommand = /usr/bin/wget --passive-ftp -c -O %o %u

   Save and exit.

Set Wget proxies and set Wget to use proxy

Edit wgetrc

sudo nano /etc/wgetrc

Find the following section in wgetrc regarding proxy settings.

# You can set the default proxies for Wget to use for http, https, and ftp.
# They will override the value in the environment.
#https_proxy = http://proxy.yoyodyne.com:18023/
#http_proxy = http://proxy.yoyodyne.com:18023/
#ftp_proxy = http://proxy.yoyodyne.com:18023/

# If you do not want to use proxy at all, set this to off.
#use_proxy = on

Uncomment and edit the default proxies, or add your own default proxies for Wget. For example,

https_proxy = http://10.0.2.2:3128
http_proxy = http://10.0.2.2:3128
ftp_proxy = http://10.0.2.2:3128

Uncomment, or add the following line to set Wget use_proxy on.

use_proxy = on

Sometimes when I do an update, or build an AUR install with yaourt, I get a “no space left on device” error.

I can temporarily increase the size of /tmp with:

sudo mount -o remount,exec,suid,size=2G,noatime /tmp

That will set /tmp to 2 Gb

Or, for a more long term solution, set the yaourt temporary directory to another location. For example, the following steps set the TMPDIR to the temp directory in my home directory.

$ cd ~
$ mkdir temp
$ sudo nano /etc/yaourtrc

Edit the line

#TMPDIR="/tmp"

to

TMPDIR="/home/<my user name>/temp"