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Hello guys,
Im new to AL so don't be hard on me ...
I'll ask 2 simple questions : What to do after the Base Install,
hardware detect and pacman -Su ?
How can i select all the packages on the CD needed to work in
a Xfree environnement ?
TIA, and keep the good work.
BTW AL ROCKS !!!!
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If u want kde u could try pacman -Stu kde or pacman -Stu gnome and u would have gnome
Remember to edit .xinitrc after and add startkde or gnome-session...
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Thanks for your reply ,
Is it "pacman -Stu [package]", because option "t" is not
a valid option ? :shock:
Thanks.
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The t is probably a typo...
To upgrade all your packages to the latest greatest, do a:
pacman -Syu (which is same as "pacman --sync --refresh --sysupgrade")
To install kde, do a:
pacman -S kde (make sure you have just done the refresh, or that should be "pacman -Sy kde")
It'll tell you kde is a group and ask you if you want to install all from that group. After installing, as Xpop said, edit ~/.xinit to start the window manager you want when you run "startx".
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Thanks you guys, everything went like a charm.
It installed xfce4 with no glithches.
But now i need to edit the xinit or the xinitrc file by
what so the right desktop manager ( ex: xfce4)
starts with the startx command ?
And what is the command for xfce4 ?
Sorry for alll those newb questions.
Thanks :oops:
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Yeah, sorry, it's ~/.xinitrc.
XFce command is "exec startxfce4". I found out by looking into "/etc/X11/sessions/xfce4.desktop", which mentions the command.
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Hey Bjorn
I could not find that file but, something fishy caught my eyes.
I noticed that hyphen in the file name and in unix or linux this the sign
of your home directory. So it ring a bell , i did not create a new
user . All the time i was using the root user.
What i did is create a new user with adduser. (ex:toto)
Do a cd /home/toto
ls -a
and there it is .xiinitrc
vi ./xinitrc
replace whatever was there to exec startxfce4
startx
AND IT WORKS !!!!
Thank you guys !!!!!
Now my next step is to install GDM
I have allready pacman -S gdm and everything went ok.
What is my next step so that all link together when i start the computer.
Yahou this is SUPER !!!
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Right, I totally forgot first thing is to create a new user. Anyway, you should have been told that in the manual I think.
About the gdm, I was just chatting with Kaleph and he told me to just add "gdm" to the DAEMONS list in /etc/rc.conf. There should be a script called "gdm" in /etc/rc.d/. The DAEMONS list is used for a lot of stuf that you want to start on boot and stop on shutdown. You should probably add it to the end, because order matters.
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Yes sir !!!
Now all is OK from boot to shutdown thanks to all of you
I installed mozilla with : pacman -S mozilla
xmms : pacman -S xmms
xscreensaver : pacman -S xscreensaver
And now it time to go to bed. Have a Good night all
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