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turekpolski

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From: Poland

Registered: 2011-05-11

Posts: 28

[SOLVED] startx not found

Hi dear Arch users!
It's my firtst post on this forum, so please be gentle ;-)

I'm installing Arch on my laptop and I have a significant problem:
After following the instruction manual and begginers guide step by step I'm stuck at getting Xorg working.

I've arrived to the point of trying wether X's work, so I just simply typed:

# startx

I recieve a "command not found" error. I've googled it before posting here and it looks like I don't have the xorg-xint package installed. But... I can't install it. I've tried and recieved this:

# pacman -S xorg-xint
error: target not found: xorg-xint

I've used archlinux-2010.05-netinstall-i686.iso for installation, if this matters. What should I do? I'm stuck

Regards
TurekPolski

Last edited by turekpolski (2011-05-11 12:01:54)

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Allan

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From: Brisbane, AU

Registered: 2007-06-09

Posts: 11,383

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Re: [SOLVED] startx not found

Have you done a full system update?

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turekpolski

Member

From: Poland

Registered: 2011-05-11

Posts: 28

Re: [SOLVED] startx not found

Using this?

# pacman -Syu

Yes. I did. I've even tried different pacman repos mirrors but it still doesn't do the trick

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PollyMath

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Registered: 2011-05-05

Posts: 14

Re: [SOLVED] startx not found

Hi turekpolski,

First, the name of the package is "xorg-xinit", not "xorg-xint"

Try: "pacman -S xorg-server xorg-xinit xorg-utils xorg-server-utils" again.

Also, from: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xorg

"Optionally, install twm, xclock and xterm for the default xorg-xinit environment:"

"pacman -S xorg-twm xorg-xclock xterm"

Then try "startx" again.

good luck.
Regards, PollyMath.

turekpolski

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From: Poland

Registered: 2011-05-11

Posts: 28

Re: [SOLVED] startx not found

PollyMath... Thank you! :-) of course it is "-xinit" and not "-xint"... Such a foolish mistake, now I'm embarresed of even creating this topic. Thank you all for help. Works like a charm now ;-)

Regards
TurekPolski

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scarletxfi

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From: Australia

Registered: 2010-04-19

Posts: 105

Re: [SOLVED] startx not found

Glad it worked out,

please change title to [SOLVED]