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ScriptDevil

Member

From: In Front of My PC

Registered: 2006-04-06

Posts: 253

Installing Gnome

I am absolutely new to pacman and arch.
I installed the arch base alone(mark base, nothing else though from a complete disk) I have not installed xorg or anything else too.
I want to install gnome on it.
How do i do it,
Is is pacman -Sy gnome
(or)
pacman -Sy xorg gnome
(or)
pacman -Sy gnome hwd or what else.
Please make the reply soon, i have to get it working soon.
I dont mind command line and was on the base for a week but links cannot support pics and flash plugiins so am without options

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Snowman

Developer/Forum Fellow

From: Montreal, Canada

Registered: 2004-08-20

Posts: 5,212

Re: Installing Gnome

pacman -Sy xorg gnome
will do it. If you want another video driver than vesa, you'll need to install it seperately.

If you want to use hwd to create a xorg.cong file, install it too:
pacman -Sy  hwd
BTW,
pacman -S gnome-extra
will install extra gnome stuff.