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#1 2006-01-06 03:33:57

mac57
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Considering Arch - Some Questions

I am considering Arch 0.7.1 (Noodle). I like the idea of a 686 optimized distro.  The last one of those I played with (Yoper) was very fast indeed, but Yoper 2.1 is getting long in the tooth, and I am looking for something new.

I am concerned when I check the current package list. I don't see KDE, Gnome or XFCE. I don't see gnumeric. I don't see GnomeMeeting. Are these available somewhere, and I am just not looking in the right place? Hopefully we don't have to build them from source and install? I have built and installed KDE once before, but it took almost an entire day to compile!

Thanks in advance for any and all help.


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#2 2006-01-06 03:37:12

Snowman
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Re: Considering Arch - Some Questions

Look in the extra repository. You can do a search from the Arch home page. All these DE/apps are there.

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#3 2006-01-06 03:59:12

ozar
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Re: Considering Arch - Some Questions

Welcome to the forums.  Be sure to check out the packages available in the AUR, too:

http://aur.archlinux.org/


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#4 2006-01-06 05:26:08

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Re: Considering Arch - Some Questions

KDE, Gnome, and XFCE each have their own group of packages as well, to easily/automatically install pretty much everything you'd need to get you up and running.  All of the programs you mentioned are in the official repositories...if you use the search on the main Arch page http://www.archlinux.org/, you should be able to find them.

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#5 2006-01-06 10:59:41

mrvw0169
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Re: Considering Arch - Some Questions

Like elasticdog said, those DEs are put in groups so all you would have to do is pacman -S gnome or pacman -S kde or pacman -S xfce4 to get the whole desktop (it'll list the packages in the group that will be installed)... pacman -S gnomemeeting for GnomeMeeting...

Give Arch a try... you'll like it, especially with pacman  big_smile ... it's even faster than Gentoo wink ! lol...

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#6 2006-01-07 20:18:11

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Re: Considering Arch - Some Questions

Thanks everyone. I had heard that Arch had a good user community - you guys are the proof of the pudding.


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