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 Searching for an alternative, I found **[UTM  ](https://mac.getutm.app/)**, a virtualization tool for macOS and iOS, that employs Apple's Hypervisor virtualization framework to run ARM64 operating systems on Apple Silicon at near native speeds. That sounds good and is good!
 
 # Getting the App from the App Store
-It's unbelievable, but the app is free! You can get it from the link above or at the **App Store**. I recommend, to buy it at the App Store for only 10 Eur, which supports further development and ensures, that you'll be noticed about updates of the app, once installed.
+It's unbelievable, but the app is free! You can get it from the link above or at the **App Store**. I recommend, to buy it at the App Store for only 10 Eur, which supports further development and ensures, that you'll be notified about updates of the app, once installed.
 
 # Retrieving your VM
 UTM even provides pre-defined VMs, ready to download and install on your computer. That's fantastic - even an **ARM64 Arch Linux** VM is available. The only thing that needs to be noticed is, that you should use the **download** link to get the VM. There is a second option in the UTM app gallery - a web page that lists available VMs for your platform - for the VM to start: "open in UTM". This lets you start the VM, but it is only available within UTM until the next reboot of your host.
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 # Some obstacles, that need to be circumvented
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+After having the VM configuration ready to install a desktop environment, this should easily be possible.
+I hit a couple of smaller issues doing so, but they all could be solved.
+
+## libcrypto.so.1.1 is missing
+Using `pacman` to install the required software led to the error message above quite quickly. From the first time, `pacman` complains about the missing shared library, it's impossible to use `pacman` to fix this or install more packages without manual intervention.
+
+The easiest way to avoid this situation is to install `openssl-1.1` the _first time_ you use pacman. `openssl-1.1` provides `libcrypto.so.1.1 `:
+```shell
+pacman -S openssl-1.1
+```
+
+## Dependency conflict between gedit and gedit-code-assistance
+My favorite desktop environment is **GNOME**. On installing the `gnome` and `gnome-extra` groups, pacman complains, that gedit and gedit-code-assistance conflict with each other. This is not a problem on **x64** and I don't know why this is a problem on **ARM64**.
+
+Personally, I don't use gedit anyway and solved this by excluding both packages from my installation:
+
+```shell
+pacman --ignore gedit gedit-code-assistance -S gnome gnome-extra network-manager-applet networkmanager
+```
+
+After the GNOME desktop environment has been installed and started, two small problems remained.
+
+## Installed packages are not up-to-date
+Although I synchronized the repository databases with `pacman -Syy` before installing packages, the final system had quite a few packages installed, that were _not_ up-to-date.
+This can easily be solved by updating all installed packages:
+
+
+```shell
+pacman -Syu
+```
+
+## Application icons and tray icons are blurry and missing
+The final problem was kinda surprising too, and I never experienced it on installing the GNOME desktop environment before. The applications and tray icons were broken and looked like this[^footnote1]:
+
+![img-description](/assets/IbKXM1Q.png){: width="480" height="270" }
+_GNOME not displaying icons properly_
+
+Analyzing this led to the cognition, that there is one library, that is responsible to render all SVG icons. Re-installing it fixed this issue:
+
+
+```shell
+pacman -S librsvg
+```
+
+I have no idea, why the packages mention above weren't up-to-date on installing them. This might have been a one-off problem with synchronizing the repository databases. As all the issues could be solved quickly, I did not analyze the root cause any further.
+
 ## Footnotes
 [^footnote]: [How To Increase a UTM Virtual Machine Disk Size](https://siytek.com/increase-utm-virtual-machine-disk-size/)
+[^footnote1]: Screenshot borrowed from a [similar issue](https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=265874).