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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.
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Try pacman -Q hal to see if it's installed
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error: package 'hal' not found.
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Then try sudo pacman -S hal and see what happens
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heh... Sudo - command not found.
ran pacman -S sudo ... same result as hal
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pacman -Sy hal sudo
if that doesn't solve it, change your mirror.
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as root please =p
archlinux i686
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will look up another mirror.
all was done as root
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