Re: [arch-general] Arch is ummnn different: my 1st installation: tried to install xfce...OOPS!
It would appear that on Mar 15, Damien Churchill did say:
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Beginners'_Guide is always a good
place to start.
Yeah, I guess maybe I woulda if only my brain hadn't run out of steam. Now
that I've looked a little closer at it than the quick glance I did
pre-install I've gotta agree, I shoulda started there...
It would appear that on Mar 15, Ananda Samaddar did say:
The wiki is your friend:
When your right... Your right! Now that I've looked a little closer, I have
to admit that the wiki (at least the one for Arch Linux) appears to be
overflowing with good stuff that I'm embarrassed to say I didn't notice.
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Beginners%27_Guide
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xfce4
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Firefox
And thanks for the additional links :) I couldn't ask for better.
you can use Lynx to view these in the console:
pacman -S lynx
Whoa! It's been so long since I used lynx that I kinda forgot about it. I
didn't give up on it easy though. It's just that so much of the web is
specifically designed for graphical browsers. But I suppose that I should
have realized that wiki pages tend to be formatted properly. And looking
at Arch's wiki with lynx is, well, beautiful... I guess lynx is back in my
vocabulary.
It would appear that on Mar 15, Jeffrey Parke did say:
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.
Thanks, for the info. Incidentally, I am familiar with using startx. But I
wouldn't have
thought to look in /etc/skel for a sample .xinitrc with initialization details
for the
most recent desktop installed. Does that also happen when other desktop/window
managers
such as e17 or kde are installed?
While I spend most of my computer time inside some GUI desktop... I always
prefer
to boot to a console and use startx when and if I'm ready. I'll likely wind up
starting XFCE with a script that if I select xfce will do a:
cp ~/xintrc-xfce ~/.xinitrc startx
It would appear that on Mar 15, Guus Snijders did say:
Actually, you should /remove/ the '#' from the start of that line... ;)
It would appear that on Mar 15, Jeffrey Lynn Parke Jr. did say:
that's exactly what I said, just wanted to make sure he new what a comment
was.
Actually THAT I do understand. But I'm guessing you get more refugees from other
GUI configured distros that don't than do... I always did think it was dumb to
replace well commented human readable config files with GUI only configs.
Especially when a GUI can just as easily be written to parse modify or at
least
rewrite such a file as to hide all the settings away someplace where you can't
edit
them by hand. But from what I've seen of Arch so far I think I may just be
preaching to the choir...
It would appear that on Mar 15, Ond?ej Ku?era did say:
I don't know much about xfce, being a KDE user, but start by looking at
/var/log/pacman.log. It should tell you what packages actually were installed
or which errors occured.
Thanks... Just had a peek at the log, and evidently the error wasn't significant
enough to be mentioned there. And all it says about xfdesktop is:
[2010-03-15 01:29] installed xfdesktop (4.6.1-1)
Or for a basic troubleshooting you could try a terminal-based browser, such as
links. It's not much, but at least ArchLinux wiki will be perfectly readable.
Yeah, since ArchLinux wiki is evidently so well designed for text based
browsers
I think I'll go with lynx (for nostalgic reasons) And I will do so not only
because I haven't got a GUI up on Arch yet, But because the test I just ran
from my PCLinuxOS install tells me that it's actually easier on the eyes
to read ArchLinux's wiki with lynx than with opera... Whoda thunk it?
It would appear that on Mar 15, Peter Cannon did say:
You don't need to understand the *Order* in Arch either?
Good! Since pacman is supposed to resolve dependencies I hadn't thought I'd
have to until installing the xfdesktop, didn't pull in enough of it's
dependencies to run it... But armed with the wiki links above I'm sure I'll
figure out what I did wrong.
I installed mc and vim without a problem. Then I thought it would be nice
if I could get a desktop up.
Well it would those are non GUI apps as you know with your opensuse ect
experience.
Yeah they (like alpine {my chosen mail client}) don't require a GUI to run.
But I've
yet to find a GUI tool that I like to use instead of any of them. I suppose I
would
survive if I absolutely had to
Re: [arch-general] Arch is ummnn different: my 1st installation: tried to install xfce...OOPS!
On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 1:22 AM, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook jtw...@ttlc.net wrote: It does look like getting Arch Linux configured the way I need it is going to take a bit more work than I'm used to. But if the rolling release part of what I've read about it means I won't have to recreate my personal user environment (heavily modified keyboard shortcuts etc...) every 6 months or so just to keep up to date, then I figure it'll be more than worth the effort. Welcome aboard and glad you're getting things sorted out. Once you have used a rolling release distro, everything else just seems silly. Reinstall every six months? No thanks!
Re: [arch-general] Arch is ummnn different: my 1st installation: tried to install xfce...OOPS!
On 15-03-10 20:01, Jeffrey Lynn Parke Jr. wrote: On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 12:26 PM, Guus Snijdersgsnijd...@gmail.com wrote: On 15-03-10 14:07, Jeffrey Parke wrote: [installing XFCE, xorg] [...] Actually, you should /remove/ the '#' from the start of that line... ;) that's exactly what I said, just wanted to make sure he new what a comment was. Lol, very good. Sorry for spoiling it, then. mvg, Guus
Re: [arch-general] Arch is ummnn different: my 1st installation: tried to install xfce...OOPS!
On 03/16/2010 01:58 PM, Thayer Williams wrote: On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 1:22 AM, Joe(theWordy)Philbrookjtw...@ttlc.net wrote: It does look like getting Arch Linux configured the way I need it is going to take a bit more work than I'm used to. But if the rolling release part of what I've read about it means I won't have to recreate my personal user environment (heavily modified keyboard shortcuts etc...) every 6 months or so just to keep up to date, then I figure it'll be more than worth the effort. Welcome aboard and glad you're getting things sorted out. Once you have used a rolling release distro, everything else just seems silly. Reinstall every six months? No thanks! +1 When I hear about issues people run into when upgrading to, say, the latest version of Ubuntu, my thinking is usually some combination of: 1) What's an OS upgrade? 2) What's an OS version? 3) If you were running Arch, you wouldn't be running into so many bugs on upgrade ... because you'd never wind up upgrading so many packages all at the same time. 4) You're still running into *that* bug? That was fixed in Arch *months* ago! It's so much fun to be a smug Arch user. :-) DR
Re: [arch-general] Arch is ummnn different: my 1st installation: tried to install xfce...OOPS!
On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 3:12 PM, David Rosenstrauch dar...@darose.netwrote: 3) If you were running Arch, you wouldn't be running into so many bugs on upgrade ... because you'd never wind up upgrading so many packages all at the same time. Except when there's a new KDE release then it's easily 100+ packages =P -- Guilherme M. Nogueira Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. - Arthur C. Clarke
Re: [arch-general] Arch is ummnn different: my 1st installation: tried to install xfce...OOPS!
On Tue, 2010-03-16 at 15:58 -0300, Guilherme M. Nogueira wrote: On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 3:12 PM, David Rosenstrauch dar...@darose.netwrote: 3) If you were running Arch, you wouldn't be running into so many bugs on upgrade ... because you'd never wind up upgrading so many packages all at the same time. Except when there's a new KDE release then it's easily 100+ packages =P Which maxes out to, what... 400 MB? My updates of Ubuntu previously pulled in well over a gigabyte of packages. Painful for the less well-endowed (in connection speed terms) among us.
Re: [arch-general] Arch is ummnn different: my 1st installation: tried to install xfce...OOPS!
On 15 March 2010 06:19, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook jtw...@ttlc.net wrote: 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??? http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Beginners'_Guide is always a good place to start.
Re: [arch-general] Arch is ummnn different: my 1st installation: tried to install xfce...OOPS!
On Mon, 15 Mar 2010 02:19:25 -0400 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! The wiki is your friend: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Beginners%27_Guide http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xfce4 http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Firefox you can use Lynx to view these in the console: pacman -S lynx regards, Ananda Samaddar
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] Arch is ummnn different: my 1st installation: tried to install xfce...OOPS!
Hi, On 03/15/10 07:19, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote: 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??? I don't know much about xfce, being a KDE user, but start by looking at /var/log/pacman.log. It should tell you what packages actually were installed or which errors occured. 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??? Or for a basic troubleshooting you could try a terminal-based browser, such as links. It's not much, but at least ArchLinux wiki will be perfectly readable. Ondřej -- Cheers, Ondřej Kučera -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
Re: [arch-general] Arch is ummnn different: my 1st installation: tried to install xfce...OOPS!
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... You don't need to understand the *Order* in Arch either? 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. Well it would those are non GUI apps as you know with your opensuse ect experience. 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 Why have you done this? If you look at the 'man' page you will see http://linux.die.net/man/1/xfdesktop xfdesktop manages the desktop itself in the Xfce 4 Desktop Environment. You should have done pacman -S xfce4 By the sound of it you've only installed part of the desktop environment. cut More to the point: Will I need to figure out how to uninstall xfdesktop to resolve the error? No. 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??? You need to do as others have suggested and read the beginners guide http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Beginners%27_Guide especially the Setting up X section.
Re: [arch-general] Arch is ummnn different: my 1st installation: tried to install xfce...OOPS!
On 15-03-10 14:07, Jeffrey Parke wrote: [installing XFCE, xorg] 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' Actually, you should /remove/ the '#' from the start of that line... ;) mvg, Guus
Re: [arch-general] Arch is ummnn different: my 1st installation: tried to install xfce...OOPS!
Peter Cannon wrote: 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 Why have you done this? If you look at the 'man' page you will see http://linux.die.net/man/1/xfdesktop xfdesktop manages the desktop itself in the Xfce 4 Desktop Environment. You should have done pacman -S xfce4 By the sound of it you've only installed part of the desktop environment. Looks like xfdesktop packages doesn't specify some of its dependancies (which is probably provided in the xfce4 group). http://www.archlinux.org/packages/?q=xfce4 should also include that there's a group with that name. I don't think it was a bad expectation from his part, looking at pacman -Ss xfce output. And even then, it could have worked, would xfdesktop have taken as dependancies the whole desktop. __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: [arch-general] Arch is ummnn different: my 1st installation: tried to install xfce...OOPS!
On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 12:26 PM, Guus Snijders gsnijd...@gmail.com wrote: On 15-03-10 14:07, Jeffrey Parke wrote: [installing XFCE, xorg] 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' Actually, you should /remove/ the '#' from the start of that line... ;) mvg, Guus that's exactly what I said, just wanted to make sure he new what a comment was.
