Arch Linux

canucks604

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Registered: 2007-01-27

Posts: 18

new arch linux user

hi all,

i'm a new arch linux user (long & current gentoo user), i just wanted to try out arch and see how it's like after hearing alot of good things about it.

i proceeded to install voodoo and i must say i'm impressed.  smooth installation process and i kinda like pacman   the install process was rather quick.  but i do have just one tiny question.  when i use pacman to install say...firefox. it doesn't seem to update the environment.

ie.
1. pacman -S firefox
2. look for firefox bin to execute and it doesn't exist

but if i reboot, then it's there. 

thanks,

ps. good job arch devs!

hacosta

Member

From: Mexico

Registered: 2006-10-22

Posts: 423

Re: new arch linux user

no need to reboot, just source /etc/profile path variable needs to be updated

Spider.007

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Registered: 2004-06-20

Posts: 1,175

Re: new arch linux user

Yep, you could confirm this by typing the full path to the installed binary which will probably work fine If not, something else is wrong. And of course most programs are installed in /usr/bin anyway so this problem only occurs with big packages supplying their own /bin directory.

Mr.Elendig

#archlinux@freenode channel op

From: The intertubes

Registered: 2004-11-07

Posts: 4,094

Re: new arch linux user

logging out/in also works, or you can export the new $PATH by hand

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canucks604

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Registered: 2007-01-27

Posts: 18

Re: new arch linux user

thanks

now i'm gonna install arch64 on my adm64 htpc machine now

cheers.