arch didn't seem desktop friendly or stable at first

bosewicht · 2004-05-30 02:03:23

i recently installed arch and i prefer using kde as my desktop, then maybe gnome. i have tried to install both of them a number of times and everytime i keep getting errors. it just seems that arch .6 isn't very stable. i suppose i will give it some more time, but i may end up switching back to vector

cactus · 2004-05-30 02:14:32

hmm...I had no problems installing either. Arch seems very stable to me.
I am having problems configuring fonts to not look crappy, but that is far from the fault of the arch devs and the distro itself..

After install did you do the:
pacman -Sy pacman
pacman -Syu
pacman -Sy <insert your choice for X11 here>
pacman -Sy kde

then..
..configure X...

Both x.org and XFree86 worked fine for me..
As well as kde. All I had to do was edit .xinitrc in my user dir, and I was golden..

bosewicht · 2004-05-30 02:30:26

I have done that, when u Syu it should update X too, which it does. but i still get errors

colnago · 2004-05-30 03:56:09

If it is in the last few days, there has been a problem with kdelibs/kdemultimedia that crashes arts. This is being worked on by the maintainer and should be fixed Sunday or Monday.

bosewicht · 2004-05-30 04:03:40

i even went and got versions of kdelibs 3.2.2-2 and multimedia 3.2.2-1 and still got the errors

bosewicht · 2004-06-08 05:02:43

i was wrong, i stuck it out, kicking and screaming the whole time but i was wrong and am loving arch

dp · 2004-06-08 10:34:25

:-)

Zephirias · 2004-06-08 21:29:51

bosewicht wrote:

i was wrong, i stuck it out, kicking and screaming the whole time but i was wrong and am loving arch

As you should, otherwise the elite Linux gods will strike down upon you.

zeppelin · 2004-06-08 22:22:31

someone should change the title

Arch Linux

#1 2004-05-30 02:03:23

arch didn't seem desktop friendly or stable at first

#2 2004-05-30 02:14:32

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