Arch Linux

jeanfrancis

Member

From: Québec, Canada

Registered: 2006-09-30

Posts: 3

New here!

Hi there !

A stange man in the bus taught me about ArchLinux... (I was reading the Linux's Bible)...

I'm a Gentoo user since about one year and I learned all what I know of Linux in it. I just installed Arch to take a look at it... and maybe, who knows, stick to it!

From what I saw from now, it is simpler, but I have less control over the packages.

I will try out to use it for what I do actually in Gentoo (Eclipse C/C++ programming, using Subversion, and some other things...)

From now, I already have one or two problems (began the ftp install yesterday, installed KDE this evening), example: I pacman -S mozilla-firefox and only the root can start it.

binaries are in /bin for users and /sbin for root? Here is what I have:

/opt/mozilla/bin/firefox
/root/.mozilla/firefox

Did I do a mistake? I will also have to figure out how to start Eclipse, it is complaining about Java but I think it was installed with I installed Eclipse...

So, see ya !

By the way, seems to be a nice distribution :mrgreen:

Snowman

Developer/Forum Fellow

From: Montreal, Canada

Registered: 2004-08-20

Posts: 5,212

Re: New here!

Log out and relogin. It will update your PATH and environnement variables. That will fix the firefox problem and probably the java one too.

jeanfrancis

Member

From: Québec, Canada

Registered: 2006-09-30

Posts: 3

Re: New here!

Firefox fixed, Java not. Here is the message:

A Java Runtime Environment (JRE) or Java Development Kit (JDK)
must be available in order to run Eclipse. No Java virtual machine
was found after searching the following locations:
/opt/eclipse/jre/bin/java
'java' in your current PATH

Any idea?

jeanfrancis

Member

From: Québec, Canada

Registered: 2006-09-30

Posts: 3

Re: New here!

Problem solved. I didn't have JRE (should be a dependency of Eclipse?)

mcmillan

Member

Registered: 2006-04-06

Posts: 737

Re: New here!

From what I saw from now, it is simpler, but I have less control over the packages.

I haven't used gentoo, so I don't know exactly what it gives you, but you might look into the possbility of rebuilding packages using ABS I think it's a little more work then gentoo, but it's actually pretty easy to recompile with different options.

hotsauce

Member

From: Ann Arbor

Registered: 2005-12-28

Posts: 125

Re: New here!

Content de voir que arch progresse au Québec!

neodreams

Member

Registered: 2006-03-20

Posts: 87

Re: New here!

Les Québécois sont partout.  :!: