Arch Linux

freigeist

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From: Cologne, Germany

Registered: 2006-07-14

Posts: 191

First install of ArchLinux and...

...I'm really impressed. Being a gentoo enthusiast for more than 3 years, I never thought that another distribution could satisfy me. If you are interested in my first experience with Arch Linux on my Thinkpad, please continue reading at my blog. I think the text is too long for being posted here

Please feel free to leave some comments or critics in this forum or the blog

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Gullible Jones

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Registered: 2004-12-29

Posts: 4,863

Re: First install of ArchLinux and...

Just a tip regarding the outdated madwifi package... You can flag stuff out of date on the Arch Linux website via the "flag package out of date" link on each package's info page.

Edit: also, prelink didn't work very well on Arch last I checked, due to the way things are compiled. Not sure if that's changed.

BTW, we have Xorg 7.1 PKGBUILDS if you want to use AIGLX on Arch as well as Gentoo. 8)

freigeist

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From: Cologne, Germany

Registered: 2006-07-14

Posts: 191

Re: First install of ArchLinux and...

Thanks for the advice, I flagged the package. Regarding aiglx, is there an aiglx compatible compiz PKGBUILD? Do you know something about integrating DT_GNU_HASH in Arch?

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IsSuE

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Registered: 2006-04-29

Posts: 309

Re: First install of ArchLinux and...

OT: could someone explain DT_GNU_HASH to me?

freigeist

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Re: First install of ArchLinux and...

Look here or here. The last link is from the binutils mailing list where it all begun.

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freigeist

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From: Cologne, Germany

Registered: 2006-07-14

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Re: First install of ArchLinux and...

Here are the first things I'm missing:

- Modular KDE (holy crap...kde is really big if you have to install all programs)
- Some security related stuff: webscarab, nikto, httping
- moodin's kde splash engine
- kdmtheme

Nothing too important, but I was used to get them on gentoo

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jaboua

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Registered: 2005-11-05

Posts: 634

Re: First install of ArchLinux and...

Check out AUR:
http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?d … s=0&SeB=nd
http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?d … s=0&SeB=nd
http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?d … s=0&SeB=nd

You can read more about AUR in the wiki.

Also check out, there's an own respiratory with KDE themes/window decos/etc.

freigeist

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From: Cologne, Germany

Registered: 2006-07-14

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Re: First install of ArchLinux and...

NICE...thx

Edit: Where do I find that themes repository?

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detto

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Registered: 2006-01-23

Posts: 510

Re: First install of ArchLinux and...

i think he meant this thread: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?t=15912
dunno, if its a repository for adding to pacman.conf, but there are a lot of PKGBUILDS there
hf & keep onarching! 8)

skottish

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Registered: 2006-06-16

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Re: First install of ArchLinux and...

- Modular KDE (holy crap...kde is really big if you have to install all programs)

Mmmmm... modular KDE... doughnut. (++vote count)

jaboua

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Registered: 2005-11-05

Posts: 634

Re: First install of ArchLinux and...

i think he meant this thread: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?t=15912
dunno, if its a repository for adding to pacman.conf, but there are a lot of PKGBUILDS there
hf & keep onarching! 8)

You can add it in pacman.conf yes - you'll find the repo location in the thread.

tpowa

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From: Lauingen , Germany

Registered: 2004-04-05

Posts: 2,322

Re: First install of ArchLinux and...

there are hints on the wiki how to build seperate kde apps.
i'll not split kde as i stated before.