Arch Linux

hendricks

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From: east of the ol' miss

Registered: 2008-03-22

Posts: 4

downloading

Hey I'm new, I mean really new <I just got arch up and running with internet about 30 minutes ago> and would love to know how to download programs ie firefox and begin the next step of trying to install them.  The only thing i really can do is ping beyond my router.  Feeling a bit small right now.  thanks for any help!

koch

Member

From: Germany

Registered: 2008-01-26

Posts: 369

Re: downloading

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Beginners_Guide

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pos … ation_Tips

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Off … tall_Guide

read the links and especially the parts about pacman.

oh, and have fun with arch.

dyscoria

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Registered: 2008-01-10

Posts: 1,007

Re: downloading

You'll probably want to have a good read through the beginner's guide.

For installing stuff, the almighty pacman is the arch linux package manager.

Welcome to arch!

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fede

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Registered: 2007-06-29

Posts: 126

Re: downloading

My first priority in your situation was to be able to browse, so I installed links, a text html browser, to be able to browse arch's forums and wiki while learning how to move on (ie while installing a graphical environment).

To install links, first sync your pacman databases (if you haven't already)
pacman -Syu

and then type

pacman -S links

These pages where inmensely helpful to me, especially the begginer's guide:
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Beginners_Guide
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Off … tall_Guide

Regarding firefox:

pacman -S firefox

will install firefox, but you need to have a graphical environment (ie X), which if you don't have you should check the begginer's guide.
Do read the beginner's guide, it's a great start.

Last edited by fede (2008-03-22 23:43:39)