I have freshly installed the gaming edition of Garuda and I have run into a couple of issues. First off, I could install the Yubikey authenticator using Octopi, but when I launch it it informs me pcscd isn’t running. When I look for it in Octopi or when using pacman, the package can’t be found. Is there any way I can get the authenticator app fully working in Garuda?
The error message is basically telling you what you need to do. See also the Arch Wiki article:
- YubiKey Manager — Python library and command-line tool (
ykman) for configuring and querying a YubiKey over USB. Has optional GUI.yubikey-manager || yubikey-manager, yubikey-manager-qt
Note: After installation, enable
pcscd.service.
systemctl enable --now pcscd.service
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It did not, it only informed me that pcscd wasn’t running. To be fair I know of the systemctl enable command, but little did I know pcscd was already on my system by default just not active. One would think that it would show up in the package manager/Octopi as installed, but it didn’t. Thanks for the help though, pcscs is now running so my Yubikey works.
As a sidenote, this is my first venture into an Arch distribution, I’m a Debian guy. And yes, I did google using “garuda linux pcscd”.
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Glad to hear it, welcome to the community @johanl-nl! 
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That’s the case with most services on Arch btw. If you are installing Garuda packages, they might take some of that work away from you, but if they don’t, always check whether services are running 
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