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rbrownclown

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Registered: 2006-12-29

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A Bunch of Questions

1.  Does Arch come with a firewall, or do I have to install one?  Any recommendations?

2.  I installed VLC Player.  It works fine, except every time I open it, I get an error message that says:

Cannot Set Locale to ".

It's kinda annoying.  How do I make it stop?

3.  I can't figure out how to get K3B to install.  I use GNOME.  I typed pacman -S k3b and it installed a bunch of things, and gave me a message saying that I had to install kdebase.  I did, and it won't open.  Not even through terminal.

Edit - fixed this one.

4.  How do I add my user to more groups?  I know optical is burning, what is printing?

Last edited by rbrownclown (2007-02-14 22:25:11)

cycle

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From: Australia

Registered: 2007-01-21

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Re: A Bunch of Questions

2.  I installed VLC Player.  It works fine, except every time I open it, I get an error message that says:

Cannot Set Locale to ".

It's kinda annoying.  How do I make it stop?

edit /etc/locale.gen and uncomment whicher locale(s) you want, then run locale.gen

hightower

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Registered: 2006-04-02

Posts: 182

Re: A Bunch of Questions

1. I don't think you need a firewall but in the Arch Wiki there's a page about firewalls

4. And again the wiki: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pla … -root_user

If you have further questions, it is a good starting point to look into the Arch Wiki

hightower

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From: Ohio, United States

Registered: 2006-05-16

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Re: A Bunch of Questions

One more link:

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Sim … wall_HOWTO

ralvez

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Registered: 2005-12-06

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Re: A Bunch of Questions

A good firewall (and very easy to configure too) is Firestarter (pacman -Sy firestarter).

rbrownclown

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Registered: 2006-12-29

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Re: A Bunch of Questions

2.  I installed VLC Player.  It works fine, except every time I open it, I get an error message that says:

Cannot Set Locale to ".

It's kinda annoying.  How do I make it stop?

edit /etc/locale.gen and uncomment whicher locale(s) you want, then run locale.gen

Could you please provide more detail about this?  Which locale(s) should I uncomment?

watsonalgas

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Registered: 2007-01-15

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Re: A Bunch of Questions

2.  I installed VLC Player.  It works fine, except every time I open it, I get an error message that says:

It's kinda annoying.  How do I make it stop?

edit /etc/locale.gen and uncomment whicher locale(s) you want, then run locale.gen

Could you please provide more detail about this?  Which locale(s) should I uncomment?

Just whichever one you need.  If you want US English, then en_US, Germany German de_DE, etc...   You're the best judge for that.

noriko

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Registered: 2006-06-09

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Re: A Bunch of Questions

if u don't know ur language code, what's ur language ?
btw the comamnd is

locale-gen

not locale.gen

edit:
language code asin: english:en ; german(deautsch):de ;
so it'd be ...

English UK > en_gb - as the uk is great britain and northern ireland.
English USA > en_US,
German Germany > de_DE
German Belgium > de_BE

i think it's recommended to uncomment (remove '#' from in from of the lines) both the iso and utf locales.
hope that helped

Last edited by noriko (2007-02-15 08:24:05)

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tomk

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Re: A Bunch of Questions

4. gpasswd -a <username> <groupname> (as root)

rbrownclown

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Re: A Bunch of Questions

Thanks, guys.  It worked.  ^_^