[PPC] Trouble installing HAL and Xorg

nyken · 2009-12-30 01:07:10

Newbie to the "Arch" way of Linux, but not to Linux itself. I can compile from Source in my sleep. However, I'm very confused about what's going on.

Installed the core of Archlinux on a G4 PPC tower with the 2009 iso, and am now looking to finish installing everything to get to a GUI Desktop Environment.

Want to install xfrc4, but found that HAL and D Bus were not installed, so I ran this command:

pacman -S hal dbus

It pulled down both packages well enough. it installed dbus 100%, but apparently there is a problem with HAL. It's not only missing from /etc/rc.d/, it's never responded to "/etc/rc.d/hal start. I've added it to the DAEMONS section of rc.conf.

Not sure where HAL went or if it ever was there even as a downloaded package. At the point of HAL's install when a list of directories runs down the screen, each one listed itself as already existing. pacman -S hal added a whole list of packages to be installed with it.

Anyhow, I'm extremely new to the pacman system and really no idea even after reading the manpage what I might be doing wrong. Hope I've given enough information to help and haven't caused the level on confusion that I have about this.

guzz46 · 2009-12-30 01:11:35

Try pacman -Q hal to see if it's installed

nyken · 2009-12-30 02:00:06

error: package 'hal' not found.

guzz46 · 2009-12-30 02:06:23

Then try sudo pacman -S hal and see what happens

nyken · 2009-12-30 06:36:17

heh... Sudo - command not found.

ran pacman -S sudo ... same result as hal

JohannesSM64 · 2009-12-30 06:39:07

pacman -Sy hal sudo
if that doesn't solve it, change your mirror.

corvolino · 2009-12-30 06:56:27

as root please =p

nyken · 2009-12-30 07:26:37

will look up another mirror.

all was done as root

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#1 2009-12-30 01:07:10

[PPC] Trouble installing HAL and Xorg

#2 2009-12-30 01:11:35

Re: [PPC] Trouble installing HAL and Xorg

#3 2009-12-30 02:00:06

Re: [PPC] Trouble installing HAL and Xorg

#4 2009-12-30 02:06:23

Re: [PPC] Trouble installing HAL and Xorg

#5 2009-12-30 06:36:17

Re: [PPC] Trouble installing HAL and Xorg

#6 2009-12-30 06:39:07

Re: [PPC] Trouble installing HAL and Xorg

#7 2009-12-30 06:56:27

Re: [PPC] Trouble installing HAL and Xorg

#8 2009-12-30 07:26:37

Re: [PPC] Trouble installing HAL and Xorg

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