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genji

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Registered: 2023-08-13

Posts: 61

[solved] theres no dhcpcd

hi i installed arch and there's no dhcpcd, i guess somehow i overlooked these steps or it's not clearly defined enough in the installation guide
then i saw another person say to install it from /var/cache/pkg or something and there's hundreds of files in there but of course, the only one that's missing, is dhcpcd

Last edited by genji (2023-08-13 17:30:12)

genji

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Registered: 2023-08-13

Posts: 61

Re: [solved] theres no dhcpcd

and i can't get online now, looking for any help, thank you

Scimmia

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Registered: 2012-09-01

Posts: 13,729

Re: [solved] theres no dhcpcd

The installation guide says to install software necessary for networking. It specifically says a dhcp client.

Go back to the install disk, chroot in, and install what you need.

Raynman

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Registered: 2011-10-22

Posts: 1,539

Re: [solved] theres no dhcpcd

Or use systemd-networkd (temporarily).

genji

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Registered: 2023-08-13

Posts: 61

Re: [solved] theres no dhcpcd

i managed to figure out the chroot thing, but i had to use arch-chroot , chroot kept failing afterwards with some kind of error about missing devices !  important to note its arch-chroot not chroot i guess, thanks very much for the help

Trilby

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Registered: 2011-11-29

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Re: [solved] theres no dhcpcd

You managed to figure it out because I told you in your other thread.  And chroot is a viable option to if you use it properly as outlined in the wiki in step-by-step instructions.

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genji

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Registered: 2023-08-13

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Re: [solved] theres no dhcpcd

You managed to figure it out because I told you in your other thread.  And chroot is a viable option to if you use it properly as outlined in the wiki in step-by-step instructions.

oh shoot did i double post?  sorry about that and thanks for your help!

denlillemand

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Registered: 2026-10-04

Posts: 1

Re: [solved] theres no dhcpcd

I had installed NetworkManager which worked fine by itself w/o the dhcpcd command installed.

systemctl enable --now NetworkManager

Then I ran:

nmtui

To get an interactive UI to select between wifis.

WorMzy

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Registered: 2010-06-16

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Re: [solved] theres no dhcpcd

Good for you, but there's no need to necrobump a three year old topic to let us know.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Genera … bumping%22

Closing.

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