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Cleaning up haskell packages on Arch Linux

In Arch Linux, all haskell packages are dynamically linked. This can be a headache for the user, since it results in a large amount of haskell-* packages being installed on your system, and the possibility for version conflicts. A way around this is to not depend on pacman at all for haskell packages, but manually install them. In this document I explain how I switched from a lot of haskell packages installed with pacman, to a few manually installed packages.

Finding packages to uninstall

To determine which packages to uninstall (and replace), a few tools are useful:

pacman itself
pacgraph

Deploying rEFInd on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS with secure boot enabled

Hello guys,

For these dual-booting Ubuntu 16.04 with an alternate operating system in UEFI boot mode, it may often be necessary to use a third-party boot manager such as rEFInd, as it's significantly superior to grub2's on UEFI-capable systems.

This write-up assumes that:

(a). The user is running a current Ubuntu 16.04LTS operating system installation (preferably on a dual-boot system)

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	Post by: Shinso on September 18, 2012, 07:28:35 PM
	Post by: Shinso on September 18, 2012, 07:30:19 PM

	* First: upgrade cpu to Core2Duo