Then: pacman -Sy pacman
And then I load all the progs I want/need.
From then on just run pacman -Syu and you'll always be up to the latest.
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after that I slowly start to collect everything I need, in my case at least xorg, Xfce4, mplayer, xine and the codecs, Firefox and Thunderbird
pacman -Sy xfce4 xfce4-goodies mplayer xine mozilla-firefox mozilla-thunderbird
after those I upgrade all the rest on my system (at the moment using testing)
pacman -Syu
I don't see the point in doing a full installation if you have even the slightest idea what programs you'll be using.
Oh, and you can create your user with the adduser command for example.
]]>Once you install the base system off of a cd, then you can update your entire machine with one command to have the latest versions of all your software downloaded directly from the repositories. It's good practice to make sure you upgrade pacman first (that's the package manager for Arch) by typing this on the command line:
# pacman -Sy pacman
...and then you can update everything else by simply typing:
# pacman -Syu
Does that answer your question?
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