Dear Sasikumar sir,
Arch or any arch base distro is highly command line friendly. Here is
something about pacman, the package manager
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pacman
Myself was a long time user of Arch linux and later switched to Chakra
Gnu/Linux http://www.chakra-linux.org which
On Jul 6, 2013 10:34 AM, V. Sasi Kumar sasi@gmail.com wrote:
On Sat, 2013-07-06 at 08:18 +0530, Jaseem Abid wrote:
Hah! We arch boys haven't lost yet! :P
$ pacman -Qo $(which xetex)
/usr/bin/xetex is owned by texlive-bin 2012.0-12
The package is texlive-bin ;)
Thank you,
+1 Jaseem! Also Keyboard shortcuts with iBus? Things work the same way
if am not wrong? My laptop's not with me now, will get back to you by
evening!
Also, Arch got communities and support IRCs which are more (geek-)
friendly than debian's!
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Jesse P Francis (atjesse)
blogs@
And Jaseem, Manjaro comes with a GUI for pacman, and Pacmac, an Update
Manager. They're trying to bring goodness of Arch to normal users! I
go for Manjaro just coz it got gui installer, too lazy to install in
arch-way ;-)
On 7/5/13, Jesse Francis atjes...@gmail.com wrote:
+1 Jaseem! Also
On 5 July 2013 11:40, Jesse Francis atjes...@gmail.com wrote:
And Jaseem, Manjaro comes with a GUI for pacman, and Pacmac, an Update
Manager. They're trying to bring goodness of Arch to normal users! I
go for Manjaro just coz it got gui installer, too lazy to install in
arch-way ;-)
On
Try
pacman -Ss texlive
its parallel to apt-cache search for apt. There is a little
difference in package naming scheme in pacman, deb and rpm repos, like
xyzd-dev in deb will be xyzd-devel in pacman etc.
On 7/5/13, Sasi Kumar sasi@gmail.com wrote:
On 5 July 2013 11:40, Jesse Francis
On 5 July 2013 12:55, Jesse Francis atjes...@gmail.com wrote:
Try
pacman -Ss texlive
its parallel to apt-cache search for apt. There is a little
difference in package naming scheme in pacman, deb and rpm repos, like
xyzd-dev in deb will be xyzd-devel in pacman etc.
Thank you, Jesse. The
pacman -S packagename
did you try searching
pacman -Ss xetex
pacman -Ss omega?
On 7/5/13, Sasi Kumar sasi@gmail.com wrote:
On 5 July 2013 12:55, Jesse Francis atjes...@gmail.com wrote:
Try
pacman -Ss texlive
its parallel to apt-cache search for apt. There is a little
difference in
that I need. Also, on the command line, how do I say install?
-S is for install.
You might like yourt (https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Yaourt).
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Regards,
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jish...@joindiaspora.com
http://twitter.com/jishnu7
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On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 4:37 PM, Jishnu jish...@gmail.com wrote:
that I need. Also, on the command line, how do I say install?
-S is for install.
You might like yourt (https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Yaourt).
Pacman, and preferably not Yaourt because that is the officially supported
On Fri, 2013-07-05 at 15:38 +0530, Jesse Francis wrote:
pacman -S packagename
did you try searching
pacman -Ss xetex
pacman -Ss omega?
Thank you for the commands. I tried both, and also pacman -Ss
texlive-omega and pacman -Ss texlive-xetex. Both returned blank. I don't
think they are in the
On Sat, Jul 6, 2013 at 6:55 AM, V. Sasi Kumar sasi@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, 2013-07-05 at 15:38 +0530, Jesse Francis wrote:
pacman -S packagename
did you try searching
pacman -Ss xetex
pacman -Ss omega?
Thank you for the commands. I tried both, and also pacman -Ss
texlive-omega
Pacman, and preferably not Yaourt because that is the officially supported
package manager.
Yaourt is just a wrapper around pacman. and it is really popular
(because of aur support). archlinux.fr has it in their repo.
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Regards,
Jishnu
http://blog.thecodecracker.com
jish...@joindiaspora.com
On Sat, 2013-07-06 at 08:18 +0530, Jaseem Abid wrote:
Hah! We arch boys haven't lost yet! :P
$ pacman -Qo $(which xetex)
/usr/bin/xetex is owned by texlive-bin 2012.0-12
The package is texlive-bin ;)
Thank you, Jaseem. Does that mean that if I have installed texlive,
xelatex is
On Sat, Jul 6, 2013 at 10:34 AM, V. Sasi Kumar sasi@gmail.com wrote:
Does that mean that if I have installed texlive, xelatex is already there?
Shall try out.
I think in ubuntu 'texlive-xetex' is not an dependency of 'texlive',
so separate installation required
anyway package naming in
Installed Manjaro
On 1 July 2013 21:08, V. Sasi Kumar sasi@gmail.com wrote:
On Monday 01 July 2013 07:30 PM, Jaseem Abid wrote:
On Jul 1, 2013 1:09 PM, Jesse Francis atjes...@gmail.com wrote:
Since you are used to Linux, Manjaro will be a better option for you-
its easy to use,
On 1 July 2013 13:09, Jesse Francis atjes...@gmail.com wrote:
Since you are used to Linux, Manjaro will be a better option for you-
its easy to use, easy to install rolling Arch based distro. Biggest
advantage over Deb based distros is that it got pacman package
manager, with a gui, and
On Jul 5, 2013 10:10 AM, Sasi Kumar sasi@gmail.com wrote:
I have now installed Manjaro Cinnamon and is using it. But find that I
need to relearn a lot of things.
Major differences,
1. Systemd - totally worth learning.
2. Diff config files
3. Pacman
4. File system is a bit different, there
Since you are used to Linux, Manjaro will be a better option for you-
its easy to use, easy to install rolling Arch based distro. Biggest
advantage over Deb based distros is that it got pacman package
manager, with a gui, and packages will be up to date, unlike LMDE
where you have to wait for
On Jul 1, 2013 1:09 PM, Jesse Francis atjes...@gmail.com wrote:
Since you are used to Linux, Manjaro will be a better option for you-
its easy to use, easy to install rolling Arch based distro.
Huge up vote to arch Linux. I have been using it for a few years and I
might stick with this for a
On Monday 01 July 2013 07:30 PM, Jaseem Abid wrote:
On Jul 1, 2013 1:09 PM, Jesse Francis atjes...@gmail.com
mailto:atjes...@gmail.com wrote:
Since you are used to Linux, Manjaro will be a better option for you-
its easy to use, easy to install rolling Arch based distro.
Huge up vote to
Dear friends,
I have been using debian-based distros for a long time now. Right now I
have debian wheezy with applications from debian testing installed. I have
used this combination very successfully before, but now find problems that
I am unable to cure. The home directory does not get mounted
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