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Well, I figured this was the place to post.
I just installed Arch in my main box. Since I tried to install steam from the repos using pacman but i got the 'package not found'.
So I downloaded from the mirror in the official arch repos.
Then i was going to run steam (that's in /usr/bin/steam) and the script couldnt find a file that was just next door. Thing was, the script couldnt find a file next door cause it will try to find it from / . I added /home/[myuser] .
I changed the code sightly to my directory so it will find the .xz file.
Then, the client apparently installed (since it created a .steam dir) but it did not appear on the screen. I tried running it from .steam, but i get absolutely nothing.
Also, looking at the script, the installation should have created a desktop icon and, it did not. So its possible that the installation itself is not working.
Since I make this thread (and since i have your attention) , I want to post another problem that may be, maybe lagging my XFCE interface.
Its the AMD drivers for my 6950 cards. I saw that the drivers ran with good performance on one of the games I like, so I tried to install them.
Weirdly, they didnt (couldnt run a module at the ending) ... it thre an error saying that there were problems with the installation. I wasnt running X, and no drivers were previously installed.. but I booted into X and it worked, and also I can see the signature saying 'Testing use Only' from AMD at the bottom.
Last edited by nullwiz (2013-08-23 13:43:47)
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You usually get a "package not found", if you don't update pacman (pacman -Sy) beforehand.
I changed the code sightly to my directory so it will find the .xz file.
And this sounds like you don't know how to install Arch packages.
and also I can see the signature saying 'Testing use Only' from AMD at the bottom.
Um. Where did you get that driver? Because this thing is so old, AMD does not do the watermark thing anymore.
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You usually get a "package not found", if you don't update pacman (pacman -Sy) beforehand.
I changed the code sightly to my directory so it will find the .xz file.
And this sounds like you don't know how to install Arch packages.
and also I can see the signature saying 'Testing use Only' from AMD at the bottom.
Um. Where did you get that driver? Because this thing is so old, AMD does not do the watermark thing anymore.
I did pacman -Sy , why it still cant find it?
Got the driver from the page, its a beta driver.. You sure? Im triying to reinstall but i still get an error.
Please, enlighten me.
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I cannot enlighten you. The steam package downloads and installs just fine here, maybe you should change your pacman mirror. Also I don't know which "page" you mean, where you get which beta driver?
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My guess is you are running 64-bit Arch but don't have multilib enabled in pacman.conf.
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I cannot enlighten you. The steam package downloads and installs just fine here, maybe you should change your pacman mirror. Also I don't know which "page" you mean, where you get which beta driver?
The official page. The last beta driver.
@derhamster indeed i do have a 64 arch build, and that's the firt thing i done.
EDIT : Nevermind for the steam package, I rebooted and it found it. Thanks
Ill mark this as solved since im posting in another thread for the ati drivers.
Last edited by nullwiz (2013-08-23 13:43:31)
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The official page. The last beta driver.
I don't think you will look in this thread again, but why aren't you able to tell exactly, which "official page" you mean and what the "last beta driver" is?
The last time, someone told me, he uses the "lastest version of wine" it was version 0.9.2, a version that is so very old. And unless you are able to tell which version you are using, how is anyone able to help you?
If you don't give away enough information to truely help you, you won't come far (and you did it again in the AMD thread).
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You should never run pacman -Sy followed by pacman -S <package> except in the case that you wish to break your system. This is dangerous. Partial upgrades are not supported and stuff will break sooner rather than later.
pacman -Syu
pacman -S <package>is safe and should work.
pacman -S <package>is safe but may not work.
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Why two steps instead of one?
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