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mystified

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man pacman and alsamixer

I just installed Arch.  I'm new to Arch but have used multiple distros over the years.  The first thing I did after installing Arch was man pacman to see how to use it.  But I have no man packages for pacman.  Is there something I need to install?

Also, I ran the command alsamixer to see if like a lot of distros alsa is muted.  But it couldn't find that command.  Is there some other command I need to use?

Thanks for the help!

lilsirecho

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Re: man pacman and alsamixer

Welcome to archlinux.

When first using pacman, it is best to enter.....pacman -Sy..... to sync the repos with your install.

pacman --help gives some options.....

Alsa is first installed with pacman..... then..... alsaconf..... is performed.

Best advice to you includes wiki reads and a posting should include the version of archlinux that has been installed to aid in understanding the situation.

Pacman automatically installs a directory in ...../var/cache/pacman/pkg ....which stores the .pkg.tar.gz packages downloaded from the repos.

pacman -Q |less...will list the installed packages in your system.

You will be assisted by many users with any problem you can define in arch.

Best to you!!

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mystified

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Re: man pacman and alsamixer

Thanks for the friendly welcome.  I will look into it.

patroclo7

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Re: man pacman and alsamixer

What do you mean when you say that you have no man package for pacman? The package pacman includes several manpages, including "man pacman", "man abs", " man makepkg". the constitute a complete documentation on the package management in archlinux. If you have not these man pages installed, then something i screwed up, perhaps your path for man pages.

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mystified

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Re: man pacman and alsamixer

[root@localhost /]# man pacman
No manual entry for pacman
[root@localhost /]# man abs
No manual entry for abs
[root@localhost /]# man makepkg
No manual entry for makepkg
And I did run pacman -Sy

Last edited by mystified (2007-04-25 17:50:27)

patroclo7

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Re: man pacman and alsamixer

Give us the output of

pacman -Ql pacman

This is the list of the files in the pacman package: they should include the man pages. Give us also the output of the following command:

export | grep MAN

This is an array of paths where man looks for manpages; it should include /usr/man.

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mystified

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Re: man pacman and alsamixer

[root@localhost /]# pacman -Ql pacman
pacman /etc/abs/abs.conf
pacman /etc/abs/supfile.arch
pacman /etc/abs/supfile.community
pacman /etc/abs/supfile.extra
pacman /etc/abs/supfile.testing
pacman /etc/abs/supfile.unstable
pacman /etc/makepkg.conf
pacman /etc/pacman.conf
pacman /etc/pacman.d/community
pacman /etc/pacman.d/current
pacman /etc/pacman.d/extra
pacman /etc/pacman.d/release
pacman /etc/pacman.d/testing
pacman /etc/pacman.d/unstable
pacman /usr/bin/abs
pacman /usr/bin/gensync
pacman /usr/bin/makepkg
pacman /usr/bin/makeworld
pacman /usr/bin/pacman
pacman /usr/bin/pacman-optimize
pacman /usr/bin/pacman.static
pacman /usr/bin/rankmirrors
pacman /usr/bin/repo-add
pacman /usr/bin/repo-remove
pacman /usr/bin/testpkg
pacman /usr/bin/updatesync
pacman /usr/bin/vercmp
pacman /usr/include/alpm.h
pacman /usr/include/alpm_list.h
pacman /usr/lib/libalpm.a
pacman /usr/lib/libalpm.so
pacman /usr/lib/libalpm.so.1
pacman /usr/lib/libalpm.so.1.0.0
pacman /usr/man/man3/alpm_databases.3.gz
pacman /usr/man/man3/alpm_db_get_pkg.3.gz
pacman /usr/man/man3/alpm_db_getgrpcache.3.gz
pacman /usr/man/man3/alpm_db_getpkgcache.3.gz
pacman /usr/man/man3/alpm_db_readgrp.3.gz
pacman /usr/man/man3/alpm_db_register.3.gz
pacman /usr/man/man3/alpm_db_search.3.gz
pacman /usr/man/man3/alpm_db_setserver.3.gz
pacman /usr/man/man3/alpm_db_unregister.3.gz
pacman /usr/man/man3/alpm_db_update.3.gz
pacman /usr/man/man3/alpm_db_whatprovides.3.gz
pacman /usr/man/man3/alpm_fetch_pkgurl.3.gz
pacman /usr/man/man3/alpm_get_md5sum.3.gz
pacman /usr/man/man3/alpm_get_sha1sum.3.gz
pacman /usr/man/man3/alpm_initialize.3.gz
pacman /usr/man/man3/alpm_interface.3.gz
pacman /usr/man/man3/alpm_list.3.gz
pacman /usr/man/man3/alpm_log.3.gz
pacman /usr/man/man3/alpm_logaction.3.gz
pacman /usr/man/man3/alpm_misc.3.gz
pacman /usr/man/man3/alpm_packages.3.gz
pacman /usr/man/man3/alpm_parse_config.3.gz
pacman /usr/man/man3/alpm_pkg_checkmd5sum.3.gz
pacman /usr/man/man3/alpm_pkg_checksha1sum.3.gz
pacman /usr/man/man3/alpm_pkg_free.3.gz
pacman /usr/man/man3/alpm_pkg_load.3.gz
pacman /usr/man/man3/alpm_pkg_vercmp.3.gz
pacman /usr/man/man3/alpm_release.3.gz
pacman /usr/man/man3/alpm_sync.3.gz
pacman /usr/man/man3/alpm_trans.3.gz
pacman /usr/man/man3/alpm_trans_addtarget.3.gz
pacman /usr/man/man3/alpm_trans_commit.3.gz
pacman /usr/man/man3/alpm_trans_init.3.gz
pacman /usr/man/man3/alpm_trans_prepare.3.gz
pacman /usr/man/man3/alpm_trans_release.3.gz
pacman /usr/man/man3/alpm_trans_sysupgrade.3.gz
pacman /usr/man/man3/libalpm.3.gz
pacman /usr/man/man5/PKGBUILD.5.gz
pacman /usr/man/man5/makepkg.conf.5.gz
pacman /usr/man/man5/pacman.conf.5.gz
pacman /usr/man/man8/makepkg.8.gz
pacman /usr/man/man8/pacman.8.gz
pacman /usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/libalpm.mo
pacman /usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/pacman.mo
pacman /usr/share/locale/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES/libalpm.mo
pacman /usr/share/locale/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES/pacman.mo
pacman /usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/libalpm.mo
pacman /usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/pacman.mo
pacman /usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/libalpm.mo
pacman /usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/pacman.mo
pacman /usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/libalpm.mo
pacman /usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/pacman.mo
pacman /usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/libalpm.mo
pacman /usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/pacman.mo
pacman /usr/share/locale/pl_PL/LC_MESSAGES/libalpm.mo
pacman /usr/share/locale/pl_PL/LC_MESSAGES/pacman.mo
pacman /usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/libalpm.mo
pacman /usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/pacman.mo
pacman /usr/share/locale/ru_RU/LC_MESSAGES/libalpm.mo
pacman /usr/share/locale/ru_RU/LC_MESSAGES/pacman.mo

[root@localhost /]# export | grep MAN
declare -x MANPATH="/usr/local/share/man:/usr/share/man:/usr/share/binutils-data/i686-pc-linux-gnu/2.16.1/man:/usr/share/gcc-data/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.1.1/man:/etc/java-config/system-vm/man/:/usr/lib/php5/man/:/usr/kde/3.5/share/man:/usr/qt/3/doc/man"
declare -x SESSION_MANAGER="local/localhost:/tmp/.ICE-unix/4413"
declare -x XDM_MANAGED="/var/run/xdmctl/xdmctl-:0,maysd,mayfn,sched,rsvd,method=classic"

patroclo7

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From: Bassano del Grappa, ITALY

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Re: man pacman and alsamixer

The man pages are installed, but your MANPATH is mistaken. In arch the man pages are installed in /usr/man. I suspect that in your system there is some config file (e.g. .bashrc or .zshrc) from another distro where the man pages are installed in /usr/share/man and so on.
Anyway, just fix the MANPATH in ~/.bashrc if you use bash or ~/.zshrc if you use zsh:

export MANPATH=/usr/man

Then logout and login, or do:

source ~/.bashrc

Last edited by patroclo7 (2007-04-25 19:00:57)

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mystified

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Re: man pacman and alsamixer

Ok, thanks for the help.

test1000

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Re: man pacman and alsamixer

sorry to be OT but what does your sig mean patroclo7 ?

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patroclo7

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Re: man pacman and alsamixer

They are the last two lines of one of the Carmina Burana, a collection of medieval poetry. It is Latin and it means "dead in the soul, I care for the skin". Here you can find the text and the translation of the Carmina Burana http://www.mgeurts.tmfweb.nl/carmlyr.htm#track11 . My signature is in the 11th carmen: the translation is mistaken, since it mentions "the flesh", but the Latin word means just "skin".

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