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In Arch Linux is very simple:

After installing hunspell:

sudo pacman -S hunspell

Installing English language spellchecker:

sudo pacman -S hunspell-en_US 

and for the Spanish language spellchecker:

sudo pacman -S hunspell-es_es

To download more dictionaries go here.

In a previous post, I talked about the configuration of Samba, using a cool icon for the Mac. Just to make it very simple, here it is, all the configuration we need (For Arch or Debian, in Debian we just use apt get or in CentOS dnf -y, or in Arch – pacman, as it is explained here:

min protocol = SMB2
vfs objects = catia fruit streams_xattr
fruit:aapl = yes
fruit:metadata = stream
fruit:model = Macintosh
fruit:posix_rename = yes 
fruit:veto_appledouble = no
fruit:wipe_intentionally_left_blank_rfork = yes 
fruit:delete_empty_adfiles = yes

to really make it work first, we need to install the package avahi, put it to run as a service, and then start the demon. After that we restart Samba.

sudo pacman -S install avahi
systemctl enable --now avahi-daemon.service
systemctl start avahi-daemon

Let’s restart Samba:

sudo systemctl restart smb
sudo systemctl restart nmb

A AUR helper like yay lets you download and install packages from the Arch User Repository.

Pacman is a powerful package manager that comes default on Arch-based distributions, but lacks the functionality of uploading packages to the Arch User Repository .
The AUR is a community managed repository providing thousands of third party packages in the form of scripts also known as PKGBUILD.

To install packages using these PKGBUILDs, need an AUR helper like yay.
yay is not pre-installed on Arch Linux nor is it available in official Arch repositories.
So how do you install yay to download packages from on your Arch desktop?
Let’s find out.

Installing, yay on Arch Linux

The yay package is only available in the Arch User Repository.
Note that you can manually install packages from the AUR without using an AUR helper, but as its says, an “AUR helper” assists you in the process which allows you install more packages easily with minimal user interaction.

sudo pacman -S --needed base-devel git
git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/yay.git
cd yay
makepkg -si

Then Check the version:

yay --version

Then you can install any sort of package:

yay -S google-chrome