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Hi,
after having been using XFCE4 for years, I at last tried to install Gnome. And cannot find out how to start the network. When I click "Settings/Network", I see an empty dialog box with a message that "NetworkManager needs to be running".
In the NetworkManager wiki it's written that NM is a native part of Gnome project and is installed automatically as a dependency to the tracker package in the gnome group. I have installed gnome and gnome-extra groups, but I don't see that NetworkManager is installed.
systemctl enable NetworkManager
Returns "no such file or directory". And
'pacman -Qs networkmanager'
finds 'libnm' and 'libnm-lib' packages, but no 'networkmanager'.
Is it normal that NetworkManager is not installed with Gnome and do I need to install 'networkmanager' package additionally?
Last edited by nbd (2017-03-28 23:50:02)
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Is it normal that NetworkManager is not installed with Gnome and do I need to install 'networkmanager' package additionally?
Yes.
Where in the wiki does it say it's installed with Gnome? I don't see that anywhere.
Last edited by Slithery (2017-03-28 23:37:53)
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Thanks!
EDIT:
NetworkManager is the native tool of the GNOME project to control network settings from the shell. It is installed by default as a dependency for tracker package, which is a part of gnome group, and just needs to be enabled.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GNOME
That coupled with statement about NM front-end:
GNOME
GNOME has a built-in tool, accessible from the Network settings.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ne … orkManager
make a new Gnome user wonder when s/he discovers NetworkManager not installed.
Last edited by nbd (2017-03-28 23:59:55)
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No, you shouldn't have to install networkmanager separately. When I run "pacman -S gnome" on a machine without networkmanager, it pulls it in as a dependency.
Edit: It looks like after upgrading, that's no longer the case. Perhaps some dependencies have changed recently and the wiki hasn't been updated sense?
Edit2: https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/pack … 735fd9aee0
networkmanager was dropped as a dependency of tracker. I'll update the wiki.
Last edited by rdeckard (2017-03-29 00:51:16)
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@rdeckard:
thanks for clarification! If that's removal was not by mistake, then apparently there were reasons for it.
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