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Installing MCUXpresso IDE on Arch Linux

The mcuxpresso-ide and linkserver AUR packages cannot be installed with an AUR helper such as yay as the binaries are behind NXP's login wall and the PKGBUILD expects them as local files. You have to build manually with makepkg.

1. Download the binaries

Create an account at nxp.com and download both .deb.bin files (accept the EULA for each):

Install Vivado 2024.2 on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS (and other distros)

Tested on:

Pop!_OS 24.10

Dependencies

# Vivado requires libtinfo5. Ubuntu comes with libtinfo6 but they are compatible enough.
# List libtinfo versions

	# Based on https://community.avaccess.com/t/kd-e10-34-monitor-with-3440x1440-goes-off-and-on-on-linux-xubuntu-24-04-only/446/3

	# This solves the monitor disconnect and device restart that happened every ~25s on Pop!_OS 22.04 LTS
	# when the USB Type-B to Type-A cable was connecting the desktop and the dock/switch, with the device 2 (desktop) being active.
	# The original author reported the issue on Xubuntu 24.04

	# The cause of the issue seems to be `brltty` taking over the UART interface on the KVM Switch/Dock, mistakenly detecting
	# the CP210x (USB to UART bridge) controller present on the device as a Braille terminal.

	# The following two lines stop the currently running `brltty` service and mask it so that it doesn't get activated again.

	import os
	import subprocess
	import sys

	"""
	This script converts all .pptx files in a specified folder to .pdf format
	using LibreOffice.

	Functions:
	convert_pptx_to_pdf(input_folder):

	#!/bin/bash

	# Shows the number of lines authored by each author in the current repo or the specified subdirectory
	lines-by-author() {
	if ! command -v parallel >/dev/null 2>&1; then
	echo "GNU parallel is not installed. Please install it to run this script."
	exit 1
	fi

	# Default to the repo root if no path is provided

	# Fixes the fn row key for Lofree keyboards on Linux.
	# Non-permanent fix: https://github.com/alexeygumirov/lofree-flow-fn-fix/blob/main/lofreemodefix

	echo 'options hid_apple fnmode=2' \| sudo tee /etc/modprobe.d/hid_apple.conf
	sudo update-initramfs -u

	# Move an installation of Pop-OS! from one disk to another.
	# Useful guide if transferring data from a non encrypted install to an encrypted install.
	# Create a fresh install of Pop-OS! in the new drive, and operatating from the live env do:

	# unlock encrypted partitions
	sudo udisksctl unlock -b /dev/<part>
	# mount partitions
	sudo udisksctl mount -b /dev/mapper/data-root # Or some other alias returned earlier

	# REPEAT ABOVE FOR SOURCE AND DESTINATION