[SOLVED] startxfce4 command not found?

apokaliptik · 2012-01-09 19:01:58

Greetings,

today I finally got some courage and decided to give archlinux a try on my laptop since I grew tired of ubuntu. Instalation was going fine until I decided to install xfce4. Like the wiki says, I took care of installing all of the necessary X packages, and even tried it successfully with the basic twm interface thing. However, after installing the xfce4 package through pacman, when I try to run execute startxfce4 it just gives me a "command not found" error. I've went to /usr/bin and in fact startxfce4 is not there. Any ideas what might be wrong?

EDIT: Reason for all the problems was that I forgot to actually update the system running the "pacman -Syu". I updated on the second install and when I executed xfce4 all the conflicts dissapeared.

Last edited by apokaliptik (2012-01-09 21:34:02)

karol · 2012-01-09 19:12:13

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/FA … is_X_in.3F
You need to install xfce-utils.

apokaliptik · 2012-01-09 19:26:33

That did the trick! Thanks karol. Apparently the package had already been downloaded but not installed, because pacman said the download size was 0.00MBs.

Last edited by apokaliptik (2012-01-09 19:26:42)

karol · 2012-01-09 19:44:09

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xfce4#Installation

wiki wrote:

Pacman will ask you to select the packages to install, but you probably want to get them all by simply pressing Enter.

[karol@black ~]$ pacman -S xfce4
:: There are 16 members in group xfce4:
:: Repository extra
   1) exo  2) garcon  3) gtk-xfce-engine  4) terminal  5) thunar  6) tumbler
   7) xfce-utils  8) xfce4-appfinder  9) xfce4-mixer  10) xfce4-panel
   11) xfce4-session  12) xfce4-settings  13) xfconf  14) xfdesktop  15) xfwm4
   16) xfwm4-themes

Enter a selection (default=all):

xfce-utils is the 7th member of xfce4 group; it should be downloaded and installed. Don't know why it wasn't installed in your case.

Please remember to mark the thread as solved as per our forum rules https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=130309 :-)

apokaliptik · 2012-01-09 20:14:09

I have just noticed that most ( if not all ) of those packages were not installed! Even though startxfce4 now runs because I installed xfce-utils, none of the others are avaliable...( I get a black screen with a cursor, nothing else ) I hit Enter but apparently it didn't select all of them! I guess I should go ahead and install them all one by one, even though I do not understand why it didn't happened in the first case...

Edit: Apparently I had a bunch of conflicting files, I forced pacman to install xfce though the "pacman -Sf xfce4" but not sure if that won't cause problems... I might have to re-install arch all over.

Last edited by apokaliptik (2012-01-09 20:34:30)

headkase · 2012-01-09 20:50:45

Forcing pacman installs is always a Bad Idea™. It should only be done when directed on the Home page of this forum OR if you are explicitly aware of something you have done to your particular system which would require it. If it's neither of those two conditions then it's always bad form.

apokaliptik · 2012-01-09 21:10:43

Learned the hard way hehe. Gotta make mistakes to learn I guess. Even though I forced xfce4 still did not work, so I just re-installed a clean arch. If the conflict persists I guess I should see what package is conflicting with xfce. Either way since the initial problem is "solved" I will tag the thread to avoid confusions. And lesson learned, no pacman forcing.

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#1 2012-01-09 19:01:58

[SOLVED] startxfce4 command not found?

#2 2012-01-09 19:12:13

Re: [SOLVED] startxfce4 command not found?

#3 2012-01-09 19:26:33

Re: [SOLVED] startxfce4 command not found?

#4 2012-01-09 19:44:09

Re: [SOLVED] startxfce4 command not found?

#5 2012-01-09 20:14:09

Re: [SOLVED] startxfce4 command not found?

#6 2012-01-09 20:50:45

Re: [SOLVED] startxfce4 command not found?

#7 2012-01-09 21:10:43

Re: [SOLVED] startxfce4 command not found?

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