Purpose

Quick and dirty install to run LibreOffice and sigil to work on on creating epub documents.

Generate unique private host id hash

See local - Generate Private Host Names

        https://codepen.io/ivanakimov/pen/bNmExm
        
        var hashids = new Hashids("coot private stock", 5, "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz1234567890");
        var id = hashids.encode(8);
        var numbers = hashids.decode(id);
        
        $("#input").text("["+numbers.join(", ")+"]");
        $("#output").text(id);
        
        8 => 0qw5q - arcolinuxb-mate-0qw5q - 20181019
        

ISO

sourceforge.net ArcoLinuxB Community Editions - mate

sourceforge.net/ download arcolinuxb-mate-v18.10.4.iso

        arcolinuxb-mate-v18.10.4.iso
        modified 2018-10-12
        2.2 GB
        /home/craig/Downloads/arcolinuxb-mate-v18.10.4.iso
        
        first user: craig
        want user craig to have uid:gid 1000:1000 - Yes this is install first user 1000:1000
        

System updates

        sudo pacman -Syy
        sudo pacman -Su
        

Packages added

archlinux.org/packages terminator

        pacman -S terminator
        

archlinux.org/packages gvim

        pacman -S gvim
          asked to uninstall vim first. said yes.
        

archlinux.org/packages libreoffice-fresh

        pacman -S libreoffice-fresh
          ran to completion
        

archlinux.org/packages 2018-10-19 sigil 0.9.10-2

        pacman -S sigil
          ran to completion 
        

2018-10-21 gthumb 3.6.2-1

wiki.gnome.org gThumb at gnome.org

archlinux.org/packages gthumb in arch extra

Configuration

virtualbox host shares

Check version of virtualbox guest additions

        $ pacman -Qe |grep virtualbox
        virtualbox-guest-modules-arch 5.2.20-1
        virtualbox-guest-utils 5.2.20-1
        

Manual mounting of host shares

        sudo mount -t vboxsf craig /mnt/craig
        sudo mount -t vboxsf r1 /mnt/r1
        

Automatic mounting of host shares

See virtualbox automounting

arcolinux.com/ Updating a 6 months old ArcoLinux or how to keep rolling and never clean install

        Good video, lots of information.
        update command: sudo pacman -Syyu
          has alias: update
        alias update="sudo pacman -Syyu"
        
        sudo pacman -S archlinux-keyring
        update
        

Wallpaper

arcolinux.com/ How to change the wallpaper with variety

arcolinuxforum.com [SOLVED] How to keep wallpaper from changing

        There are tons of video's and articles about our wallpaper changer and provider.
        But you need to know the name aka variety
        Search our websites to look what you want to do next
        https://arcolinux.com/?s=variety
        

arcolinux.com/ How to delete variety and all its configuration files

        See ~/.config/variety/variety.conf
        
        sudo pacman -R variety
        sudo pacman -R arcolinux-variety-git
        Manually remove the folder: ~/.config/variety