Re: [arch-general] Arch is ummnn different: my 1st installation: tried to install xfce...OOPS!
On 03/15/2010 01:19 AM, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote:
Hello, I've been using various Linux distros for a while now. I just
decided to give Arch Linux a try. But I'm a little bit lost. I'm used to
distros like Xubuntu, PCLinuxOS, OpenSuSE, etc... Where I don't need to
personally understand what order I need to install which packages to get
at least one GUI desktop up running...
The install itself went ok. But I needed to add a few things.
First I used the list of typical tasks for pacman from the installation
guide, to figure out how to look for a package and install it with pacman.
I installed mc and vim without a problem. Then I thought it would be nice
if I could get a desktop up. I did a:
pacman -Si xfce|less
and looked for a package that might get me to a minimal desktop I could work
with.
I thought maybe xfdesktop...
pacman -S xfdesktop
It wanted (I think) 26 packages to satisfy the dependencies... Sounded low
to me but what do I know? I figured the next step would be to ask for help
(or a good step by step how-to) But sooner or later I was going to want
xfce so I said yes...
I didn't get any errors until the last package (xfdesktop itself) Then there was
an error with a line number (oops I didn't write it down) And I think something
about gtk icons, (something not existing...)sigh {If I'd figured out
how to activate GPM I'd have pasted the error into a text file so that I
could accurately report what it said.}
When pacman reports an error, listing just one line number like that,
does it stop processing. Or does the fact that there was only one error
(about icons I think) mean that everything else in the package installed
successfully???
More to the point: Will I need to figure out how to uninstall xfdesktop to
resolve
the error?
Could some nice Arch user point me at enough step by step instructions so
that I can get enough of a gui up to use a browser like firefox so I can
try to find solutions via the web while Arch is actually running???
Please!
Have you read the beginners guide? It's a great help for times like
these, I'll post it below. Well what you wanna do now is to install the
xorg group (pacman -S xorg) then the xfce group (pacman -S xfce4). Then
move the .xinitrc file to your home folder (cp /etc/skel/.xinitrc/
/home/user/.xinitrc); edit this file to so that the line with startxfce4
is uncommented (in other words has a '#' in front of it. Finally, run
'startx'
But do read the beginners guide, it is a very nice page that details all
of these steps and more.
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Beginners%27_Guide
Re: [arch-general] Entranced - Anybody Using It? I get it started, can enter name, but that's it.
David C. Rankin wrote: Guys I was trying to setup entranced on Arch. I followed the enlightenment.org wiki, but the arch setup for Xsession, etc. left me a little unsure on exactly where some of the entrance_edit path info should point. The Arch default for entrance_config.cfg is: Entrance Daemon Settings attempts = 5 xserver = /usr/bin/X -quiet -br -nolisten tcp vt7 Entrance Client Settings xsession = /etc/X11/Xsession auth = 1 engine = 0 reboot = 1 halt = 1 theme = default.edj background = pointer = /usr/share/entrance/images/pointer.png greeting-before = Welcome to greeting-after = date-format = %A %B %e, %Y time-format = %l:%M:%S %p autologin-mode = 0 autologin-user = presel-mode = 1 presel-prevuser = user-remember = 1 user-remember-count = 5 user-count = 0 session-count = 2 default-session = default default-session-title = Default default-session-icon = default.png The 'xsession' line can't be right because Arch doesn't have /etc/X11/Xsession. So I'm thinking that is the problem. The box is booting to runlevel 3 and all xdm/kdm startup in /etc/inittab are commented out. (the wiki said to disable all xdm and kdm) I have the daemons in rc.conf set to: .. alsa entranced famd) and entrance starts and display the default winter theme. All my desktops were listed (e16, e17, icewm, kde, lxde, openbox). The username entry works and I can type my name in there, but the password line is grayed out and will accept no input. The little 'lock' icon and the '' (right-arrow) below the password line are grayed out as well. When things wouldn't work, I just used ctrl+alt+f1 and /etc/rc.d/entranced stop to kill it and then just used kdm. well the E17 wiki pages says: * */etc/inittab* - The recommended way ... ## Only one of the following two lines can be uncommented! # Boot to console #id:3:initdefault: # Boot to X11 id:5:initdefault: ... # Example lines for starting a login manager #x:5:respawn:/usr/bin/xdm -nodaemon #x:5:respawn:/usr/sbin/gdm -nodaemon #x:5:respawn:/usr/bin/kdm -nodaemon #x:5:respawn:/usr/bin/slim /dev/null #x:5:once:/bin/su johndoe -l -c /bin/bash --login -c startx /dev/null 21 x:5:respawn:/usr/sbin/entranced --nodaemon /dev/null
Re: [arch-general] google wave
Artyom Smirnov wrote: On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 11:06 PM, Jonathan Brown jbs...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi all, I know this is off-topic, but does anyone have a google wave invite that they just don't know who to give to? :) If so, I'm a bit desparate to try it out! Would be much appreciated and I would return the favor to others! jbs...@gmail.com --Jon Just got another 12 invites in my account. Sending one to you. got an invite for me? theringmas...@archlinux.us
Re: [arch-general] google wave
Artyom Smirnov wrote: On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 7:02 PM, Jeffrey Parke jeffrey.pa...@gmail.com wrote: got an invite for me? theringmas...@archlinux.us Sent. thanks~!
Re: [arch-general] Opera Tip -- Use QT/GTK file Open/Save dialogs
David C. Rankin wrote: Archers, I have always liked the opera browser, but one thing that has really sucked about it was the crappy file open/file save dialogs opera comes with. Picking around tonight, I ran across an option in opera's configuration that allows you to choose the file selector dialogs to use. It is cryptic as hell, but I found the commit page for the changes and got the needed information. To make use of real kde4 open/save dialogs in opera, got to the config page by typing opera:config into the address bar, the scroll down to File Selector, then change the setting to 2. The commit notes say: 0 - normal 1 - Qt 2 - GTK For some reason, I couldn't get Qt to work, so I select 2 for GTK, and Bingo! I had usable dialogs in opera (you may need to restart opera). What a relief. If you use opera, it's worth a look. While on the subject, you might want to check out the C00-14, Keramik and crystal_onyx_bull skins. Opera has come a long way in 10.0 hey that's really cool!! thanks
Re: [arch-general] What is the different between core/dbus-core and extra/dbus
Brock.Zheng wrote: Hi, all I found that those two packages was built from the same source code . this is quite annoying when installing Xfce, because xfce won't start without dbus. I thought dbus was installed as a dependency idk
Re: [arch-general] i686 extra repo - busted?
pyther wrote: I'm guessing something is wrong with the extra repo on i686! Did Allan break it? I tried three different mirrors including ftp.archlinux.org R2D2:~ $ sudo pacman -Sl extra extra 3ddesktop 0.2.9-3 extra a2ps 4.14-1 extra a52dec 0.7.4-4 extra aalib 1.4rc5-6 extra abcde 2.3.99.7-1 extra abiword 2.6.8-1 extra abiword-plugins 2.6.8-1 extra abook 0.6.0pre2-1 extra abs 2.3.2-2 extra abuse 0.7.1-1 extra acct 6.3.2-2 extra acidrip 0.14-6 extra acpi 1.4-2 extra acpid 1.0.8-1 extra afterstep 2.2.8-2 extra agg 2.5-2 extra aif 2009.04.08-1 extra aiksaurus 1.2.1-1 extra akode 2.0.2-1 extra akonadi 1.1.1-1 extra alacarte 0.11.10-1 extra allegro 4.2.2-1 extra alltray 0.70-1 extra alpine 2.00-3 extra alsa-lib 1.0.19-1 extra alsa-oss 1.0.17-1 extra alsa-utils 1.0.19-1 extra alsaplayer 0.99.80-2 extra amarok-base 1.4.10-3 This is the whole listing! ~pyther did ya try scrolling down?
[arch-general] hplip and qt4
Why is our hplip software still using qt3? If you download hplip straight from the hp site, you get the qt4 version, do you not? just wondering The Ringmaster
Re: [arch-general] Undelivered Mail Returned to Sender
Ricardo Hernandez wrote: Me too, when i try to write to arch-general 2009/2/15 Avramucz Péter muczy...@gmail.com: I get this too. On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 5:13 PM, Grigorios Bouzakis grb...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 11:00:44AM -0500, Daenyth Blank wrote: On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 08:08, Grigorios Bouzakis grb...@gmail.com wrote: I got Undelivered Mail Returned to Sender for both of these: http://www.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-general/2009-February/003630.html http://www.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-general/2009-February/003631.html hence the 2nd email. I assume you got the emails, and that i will get a delivery failure for this email too. Anyone else getting that? -- Greg I haven't gotten anything unusual lately Weird, heres what i get: This is the mail system at host gerolde.archlinux.org. I'm sorry to have to inform you that your message could not be delivered to one or more recipients. It's attached below. For further assistance, please send mail to postmaster. If you do so, please include this problem report. You can delete your own text from the attached returned message. The mail system arch-general@archlinux.org: mail forwarding loop for arch-general@archlinux.org Reporting-MTA: dns; gerolde.archlinux.org X-Postfix-Queue-ID: 9B94A2A130 X-Postfix-Sender: rfc822; srs0=d4ia=6s=gmail.com=grb...@srs.kundenserver.de Arrival-Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2009 08:10:32 -0500 (EST) Final-Recipient: rfc822; arch-general@archlinux.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;arch-general@archlinux.org Action: failed Status: 5.4.6 Diagnostic-Code: X-Postfix; mail forwarding loop for arch-general@archlinux.org -- Greg it is most likely because we are now rejecting html emails, right?
Re: [arch-general] new here and need some help, please...
You shouldn't really have to mess with that file. Your repository list is kept in /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist. Maybe you could explain a bit more of what environment in particular you want. - Original message - Hi, I am very new to AL. I heard about it today and just finished the basic installation. Now, I am ready to get to the GUI. The problem I am having is where to find the repositories for the /etc/pacman.conf file? It would be helpful if someone explained how to place the repos in the .conf file? I am using the Beginners Guide, and am starting to have a little trouble. Thanks, Preston
Re: [arch-general] Arch listed as option in virtualbox
Alper KANAT wrote: But you still have to use ide-legacy to use Arch in Virtualbox.. :P I was just installing an Arch box in Virtualbox on my MBP.. Second installation though since I didn't know about ide-legacy.. Alper KANAT http://raptiye.org Gustavo A. Gómez Farhat yazmış: I am happy for that too! :D On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 5:10 PM, David Rosenstrauch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Looks like Arch is now listed as an OS type choice in virtualbox. Cool! (Maybe it was already; I just noticed it today though.) DR I didn't use the legacy option last time I installed arch in vbox and it worked fine.
Re: [arch-general] Problems with easynews mirror?
David Rosenstrauch wrote: Seems to be running extremely slowly. Anyone have any idea what's up with it? It's usually a very reliable mirror. Thanks, DR yeah i'm having timeouts too
Re: [arch-general] Bad package page(s) on Arch site
Grigorios Bouzakis wrote: On Mon, Aug 04, 2008 at 06:56:47PM +0200, Henning Garus wrote: Am Mon, 04 Aug 2008 12:32:50 -0400 schrieb David Rosenstrauch [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Anyone know why these pages are coming up in error? http://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/i686/memtest86+/ http://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/memtest86+/ http://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/i686/libxml++/ http://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/i686/libsigc++2.0/ ... This is pure speculation from my end, but I would guess there is some bug with an unescaped + and Django url parsing. The Arch website is totally borked http://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/wxgtk-2.6/ http://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/archboot/ (see all those virtual packages. Greg both of those (wxgtk and archboot) are working links
Re: [arch-general] Bad package page(s) on Arch site
Grigorios Bouzakis wrote: On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 11:51 PM, Jeffrey Parke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Grigorios Bouzakis wrote: On Mon, Aug 04, 2008 at 06:56:47PM +0200, Henning Garus wrote: Am Mon, 04 Aug 2008 12:32:50 -0400 schrieb David Rosenstrauch [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Anyone know why these pages are coming up in error? http://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/i686/memtest86+/ http://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/memtest86+/ http://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/i686/libxml++/ http://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/i686/libsigc++2.0/ ... This is pure speculation from my end, but I would guess there is some bug with an unescaped + and Django url parsing. The Arch website is totally borked http://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/wxgtk-2.6/ http://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/archboot/ (see all those virtual packages. Greg both of those (wxgtk and archboot) are working links wxgtk was fixed in the meantime. as for archboot take a look at the virtual dependencies. Greg i don't know what those are, but the deps i see there all work. afaik
Re: [arch-general] Will Firefox 3 be brought into extra ?
someone just got owned i think Patrick Burroughs wrote: On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 19:04, Alessio Bolognino [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu 2008-06-19 08:52, Emmanuel Benisty wrote: FTR, 3.0rc2 is 3.0 IIRC 3.0rc3 is 3.0 3.0rc3 is identical to 3.0rc2 except on OS X. ~celti
Re: [arch-general] unable to select ppp package when installing 2008.04-rc
gan lu wrote: On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 12:08 PM, Jeffrey Parke [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: gan lu wrote: I have tried once or twice, even if you select all four catogaries and all packages, I don't see ppp listed there. I don't check it one by one but by press P, so I don't know if anyone can confirm it too. It's in the CD though. PPP is import package for one using adsl connection etc. just install the base package. it has all the packages you need for internet stuff. No, there isn't when I tried. yeah the ppp package is in the core. http://archlinux.org/packages/search/?q=ppp
Re: [arch-general] [English] New Distro - Can't Read German
bis nächstes Jahr den Bogengeist von Einfachheit lebendig halten und erlernen, Deutschen zu lesen. lol Michael Schaefer wrote: On 01/04/08 14:05, Alessio Bolognino wrote: Senfpulver oder Senfmehl besteht aus gemahlenen, meist weißen Senfkörnern. Besonders verbreitet ist es in der englischen Küche. Falls es nicht mitgekocht wird, wird es mit Wasser zu einer Paste verrührt, die ähnlich wie Tafelsenf verwendet wird. Senfpulver kann auch Bestandteil von Currypulver sein!!! Und ich dachte, Bananen hätten gar keine Gräten...
Re: [arch-general] Goom Byetteng
nice english/german there buddy, happy april, 1st Essien Ita Essien wrote: Zear ArgLeenugs, Zit it vit gret dizplezur datz I havengt now writteng diz mailz een compuleet stopmentten ov useng ov ArgLeenugs az a diztro. I havengt now enjoymenttum my timeung useng ov diz distro atchung!! Peety my englishung notteng de bestest but notteng the baddest but cannotz I usengzt. Dankee! atchung!! farewarez ArgLeenugs Essiengenz
Re: [arch-general] [English] New Distro - Can't Read German
yes Brandon Martin wrote: Is this for real?
Re: [arch-general] New web page
yes it is very nice. Congrats to all who where involved. Well, I guess that would be everyone. WOOT!! Carl Mueller wrote: The new web page looks great! Congratulations to all involved. Carl Mueller
[arch-general] where are the free fonts?
what package contains the freesans, freeserif, and the freemono fonts. If i said there names wrong, please correct me. I last saw these fonts when i had ubuntu.
