Hi
Just saw the excellent wiki. The list of packages for KDE is here http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Des … E_Packages . I hope I could download all this stuff by myself.
You don't have to download them one by one.
A simple
pacman -Sy kde
will install all packages in the group kde. If there are already downloaded packages somewhere in your system simply move them to "/var/cache/pacman/pkg/" (if I remember correct)
Where do I place the tarballs of the packages so that pacman picks it up?
And can I mount a CD (or something) to "this" directory so I can save space?thanks
Have a look at the file "/etc/pacman.conf" in which you are able to define where pacman should search for packages. ("remote and local repositories")
]]>Just saw the excellent wiki. The list of packages for KDE is here http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Des … E_Packages . I hope I could download all this stuff by myself.
Where do I place the tarballs of the packages so that pacman picks it up?
And can I mount a CD (or something) to "this" directory so I can save space?
thanks
]]>I am right now downloading arch (at ~10 kbps average) now it will be over soon. If KDE, X, OOffice are as large as i made out to be, I would like to download them separately. I saw packages in community, extra, testing and stuff, now which one is 1-stable and 2-latest of all the packages of the above three?
Thanks
]]>Maybe a little late, but still...:)
Right now I'm running Arch on an Asus A3FC laptop with Intel 945GM graphics and I use the i810 driver without any problem. The only issue may be with some exotic display resolutions. My LCD is 1400x1050 but the card's bios does not support it natively. It is however no problem to patch the bios the way you need, using, in my case, the 915resolution utility (which can be found in AUR).
Have fun, Arch's definitely a good choice;)
-Miky.
]]>Sorry for the delay...
Im defintely downloading. Im right now in the FTP link .../0.72/ Which image would you reccomend?
Thanks
]]>And the speed... It's not subjective, it's a fact
]]>3. It's the fastest booting linux distro I have so far discovered, and one of the most responsive. It feels very light and quick to me, but that's just a subjective impression of course.
4. System resources, unless you want to do something quite heavy 256 MB of RAM should do the job. I've had arch, with X and KDE, boot into approximately 50 MB of RAM. As far as the size of / goes, assuming you don't have a seperate /usr , /opt , or /var but do have a seperate /home you might be able to get by with 5 or 6 GB (depending on how much you install) but for a normal system I wouldn't feel really comfortably with much less than 10 GB myself. If you have a (relatively) small partition be sure to run "pacman -S -cc" to clear pacman's entire cache of packages regularly.
]]>EDIT:
I found the times.... (These times on are on two different computers!)
Ubuntu: 1 min 11 sec 21 milisec
Arch: 0 min 58 sec 72 milisec
Also, I am able to have a useful computer while only using a little bit of space with arch. My arch computer is using less than 2gb and has like 5 different window managers (one being xfce), firefox, gaim, and some other stuff.. I still could fit a lot more.. (That computer has a 4gb hd)
]]>Try it, it is definately worth the effort.
]]>Do i need to bust my head trying to carry a pcakage /bw two computers?
And also do I have to mess with each package just to get it working?
I'm not sure what you mean by carrying packages, but if it's what I think you mean, you can download packages on one Arch machine and install them on another with no problems, unless they are hardware-specific, and the hardware concerned is different on the two machines. How you get the package from one machine to the other is entirely up to you, but I would recommend a network.
You don't have to "mess" with the packages, but in most cases, you do have to configure the application to get it working - but I expect you already know that.
I'll relegate this question to anyone who actually runs an i810.
Umm.... delegate, maybe?
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