Arch Linux

Elvish Legion

Member

Registered: 2007-12-29

Posts: 53

Arch Linux...Wow!

After years of using several differnt distros (everything from ubuntu/debian to suse and fedora) I finally feel like I found the prefect distro for me, makepkg -i is awesome (just installed nwn diamond) the repo may be smaller than debian but it seems to have everything one could need.

The community here is just awesome and helpful

The documentation is great, I changed from amd64 to i686 due to java but while I was useing amd64 there was plenty of wikipages about flash,wine and everything else.

All I can say is WOW! I hope I can help contribute some packages (doing some reading and going to try)

Elvish

Zer0

Member

From: Windsor, ON, Canada

Registered: 2006-08-25

Posts: 299

Re: Arch Linux...Wow!

Glad to hear you like Arch.  Even though it's repo's may be smaller then debian.. the majority of packages are covered and it's super easy to build your own PKGBUILD scripts for apps that may not be in the repo's.

Having the ability to install binary packages or source packages is the icing on the cake

Here's the best info to keep handy when building your own packages..
- MAN PKGBUILD
- http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arc … _Standards
- http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/AUR_User_Guidelines
- http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arc … _Standards
- http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arc … _Standards

tlaloc

Member

From: Lower Saxony

Registered: 2006-05-12

Posts: 359

Re: Arch Linux...Wow!

I would like to add:
http://www.archlinux.org/pacman/PKGBUILD.5.html