[SOLVED] [Wiki] Beginner's Guide suggestion

davcri · 2015-04-29 11:09:10

I want to make a suggestion to improve the Beginner's Guide in the ArchWiki.
I just installed Arch Linux reading this guide and the only thing that wasn't clear to me is when I needed to select packages from a group. Same problem of this guy: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=118413

I gladly would accepted a little explanation on which kind of syntax to use to include/exclude packages.

Last edited by davcri (2015-04-30 06:43:10)

Trilby · 2015-04-29 11:30:59

When, during the installation, do you need to select packages from a group? Do you want to exclude some of the base group? While I remove some of the base group, I find it easier to just do that after the install.

Why do you think this information should be in the Beginner's Guide rather than on the pacman page? This ability to select packages should not be needed during the installation.

davcri · 2015-04-29 11:45:08

When I was installing the base system with

# pacstrap -i /mnt base base-devel

However, I didn't know that this is a pacman feature, I thought that was related to pacstrap.
For me a simple link to pacman#Installing package groups would be helpful, but that's just me

Alad · 2015-04-29 11:58:25

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php?ti … did=371421

n.b the Installation guide omits "-i"; in that case, there is indeed no selection.

https://github.com/falconindy/arch-inst … rap.in#L84

Last edited by Alad (2015-04-29 11:58:54)

davcri · 2015-04-30 06:42:35

Thank you for the fix, hope this will be helpful for new Arch users

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