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Gizmoghost

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Registered: 2009-01-30

Posts: 2

Missing components

Hi, I'm brand new into the world of Linux, and at the suggestion of a friend I'm installing ArchLinux.

Through the Beginner's Guide on the wiki, I've successfully installed ArchLinux and X, and now I'm attempting to install KDE, but I've run into some troubles.

KDE will require the hal (Hardware Abstraction Layer) and fam (File Alteration Monitor) daemons. The kdm daemon is the K Display Manager, which provides a graphical login, if desired.
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The hal, fam and kdm packages are installed when you install KDE, but must be invoked to become useful.

I've downloaded and installed the kde package through pacman, but when I try to invoke fam, bash returns a No such file or directory error, which makes rather a lot of sense, considering it's not listed in /etc/rc.d (though hal and kdm are)

I'm wondering what, if anything, I need to do to track down this daemon.

Any advice that could lead me towards a solution is thanked for in advance.

grimrider

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From: Ohio

Registered: 2008-12-09

Posts: 60

Re: Missing components

it sounds like fam didnt install.  idk about hal tho anyways you need to install hal and fam with

pacman -S hal fam

as root and then start them with

/etc/rc.d/hal start
/etc/rc.d/fam start

(idk if these need to be root, id assume so)
then to autostart them, add them to the daemons array in the /etc/rc.conf file

Last edited by grimrider (2009-02-01 00:28:24)

brisbin33

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From: boston, ma

Registered: 2008-07-24

Posts: 1,799

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Re: Missing components

fam is deprecated and gamin is the recommended replacement... fam can be placed in daemon's array in rc.conf or started with /etc/rc.d/fam start; gamin, just install it and forget about it, i believe

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Gizmoghost

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Registered: 2009-01-30

Posts: 2

Re: Missing components

Oof. Probably should have been able to figure that out myself.
Everything's working great now. Thanks a bundle, grimrider.