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daovcr

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Registered: 2011-10-27

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[SOLVED] I've installed gnome, but I have no terminal?

Great to meet you all archers.
I'm new with arch, installed it with no problems or errors following the wiki and some other tutorials, but after reboot I've encountered a few "things":
-when I wanted to install gnome 3, after pacman -S gnome gnome-extra gnome-system-tools, a list of about 25 options came; I've selected gnome-shell, the installation finished but said that gnome-system-tools doesn't exist...
-I've installed everything alsa, nvidia, added user and sudo... rebooted but when gnome 3 starts there is only one item in the left panel (dock) "Files" but no terminal whatsoever... how should I continue reading things or trying to repair what I did wrong if there is no terminal?

Thanx in advance for any answers.

Last edited by daovcr (2011-11-16 17:15:20)

RichAustin

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From: Wakefield, Yorkshire, England

Registered: 2011-07-27

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Re: [SOLVED] I've installed gnome, but I have no terminal?

Can you switch to a terminal using Ctrl + Alt + F1? You should be able to get to a terminal by holding down Ctrl + Alt + any of the function keys from F1 to F6. Ctrl + Alt + F7 takes you back to Gnome. If you can get to a terminal there then you can login and sort something out.

Rich

wonder

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Re: [SOLVED] I've installed gnome, but I have no terminal?

you ended up installing only gnome-shell.

pacman -S gnome

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daovcr

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Re: [SOLVED] I've installed gnome, but I have no terminal?

you ended up installing only gnome-shell.

pacman -S gnome

Ok then, so how should I install gnome with all the dependencies if I'm having about 25 options and no "all" option?

wonder

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Re: [SOLVED] I've installed gnome, but I have no terminal?

pacman -S gnome and hit enter when asking to for selection, default is all

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daovcr

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Re: [SOLVED] I've installed gnome, but I have no terminal?

I've used ubuntu in the past and still do on an older computer.
Damn, and I thought I'm smarter.

Thx for the prompt answers.

daovcr

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Re: [SOLVED] I've installed gnome, but I have no terminal?

Replying from arch... greaaat.
10x everyone.

wonder

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Re: [SOLVED] I've installed gnome, but I have no terminal?

yey

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NgoHuy

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Re: [SOLVED] I've installed gnome, but I have no terminal?

i think you should
sudo pacman -S bash

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Re: [SOLVED] I've installed gnome, but I have no terminal?

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spark666

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Re: [SOLVED] I've installed gnome, but I have no terminal?

You should run just pacman -S gnome gnome-extra.Dont run pacman -S gnome-system-tools,its not available anymore,now it`s included in the gnome-extra group.:)

Last edited by spark666 (2011-11-14 16:28:46)