Arch Linux Environmental Setup FAQ

Dependencies

• Issue of dependency conflict or failure to find the dependency that should be there:

  sudo pacman -Syu –debug
  It triggers a prompt
  This also performs wide-range package upgrades.

• Issue of CMake / makepkg -si:

  ==> Starting build()...
  CMake Error: CMake was unable to find a build program corresponding to "Unix Makefiles".
  CMAKE_MAKE_PROGRAM is not set.  You probably need to select a different build tool.
  CMake Error: CMAKE_C_COMPILER not set, after EnableLanguage
  CMake Error: CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER not set, after EnableLanguage
  -- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred!
  ==> ERROR: A failure occurred in build().
  Aborting...

  To resolve such building depedencies:

  sudo pacman -S base-devel

  Packages (12)
  autoconf-2.71-4  automake-1.16.5-2  bison-3.8.2-5
  debugedit-5.0-5  flex-2.6.4-5  gc-8.2.2-1  guile-3.0.9-1
  m4-1.4.19-3  make-4.4.1-2  patch-2.7.6-9  pkgconf-1.8.1-1
  base-devel-1-2

• Install pytorch with ROCm backend (read more)

  For CPUs with AVX2 instruction set support, that is, CPU microarchitectures beyond Haswell (Intel, 2013) or Excavator (AMD, 2015), install python-pytorch-opt-rocm to benefit from performance optimizations. Otherwise install python-pytorch-rocm.

  sudo pacman -S python-pytorch-opt-rocm

  This may generate an installation as large as:
  

  Total Download Size:    2654.00 MiB
  Total Installed Size:  29579.85 MiB
  
  :: Proceed with installation? [Y/n]

Appearance

• Icon font not displaying in Code terminal

  sudo pacman -S ttf-meslo-nerd-font-powerlevel10k

  {
      ...
      "terminal.integrated.fontFamily": "MesloLGS NF",
      ...
  }