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LRabidriver

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Registered: 2014-08-14

Posts: 1

Small Window Manager install?

could anyone help me with the SWM install? sorry im new to arch.

2ManyDogs

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Registered: 2012-01-15

Posts: 4,645

Re: Small Window Manager install?

Welcome to Arch.

What have you tried? Have you read the wiki AUR topic? https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/AUR

Have you tried to follow the directions in the wiki? https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/AU … g_packages

People here are very helpful, but we will usually try to show you how to solve your own problems. It helps if we know what you have already tried, and what specific problems you have run into.

Last edited by 2ManyDogs (2014-08-14 16:04:23)

ewaller

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From: Pasadena, CA

Registered: 2009-07-13

Posts: 19,804

Re: Small Window Manager install?

Hi, and welcome to Arch Linux.   You don't give us much to go on.  This was your first post here, so we don't know you, or what you have read or tried.  I'll make a guess and assume that you do not know what the AUR is.  The AUR is the Arch User Repository https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/AUR.  Packages in the AUR are not official Arch packages and are not installed in the same manner as things in the ABS (Arch Build System) which are available in the supported repositories (core, community. extra).   You must compile it yourself using the tool called makepkg, and then install the resultant package using pacman -U 

Read the link I provided for some details.   If I was wrong, and you are having trouble with the actual build, let us know and we will help you through it.

[edit]Too slow.  I need more coffee.

Last edited by ewaller (2014-08-14 16:09:19)

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