Arch Linux

Rockem

Member

Registered: 2009-09-08

Posts: 3

Need a hand with Arch installation

Hello,

yesterday I installed arch for the first time
after installation I did:

pacman -Syu

all went well
then I did

pacman -S kde

whats weird is that in the middle of downloading it stopped
and running that command again didn't work,
only after I change the mirror twice, ti worked again
why is that ?

now,
after all is installed I tried running kdm
but nothing happened.
how do I run kde ?

thanx
Eli

tomk

Forum Fellow

From: Ireland

Registered: 2004-07-21

Posts: 9,839

Re: Need a hand with Arch installation

There's a KDE page in the wiki, you should probably read it. There's also an Arch beginner's guide, might suit you.

Rockem

Member

Registered: 2009-09-08

Posts: 3

Re: Need a hand with Arch installation

I saw that page, nut it has nothing on my problem
my kde wont even run
there must be some other step involve here

techprophet

Member

Registered: 2008-05-13

Posts: 209

Re: Need a hand with Arch installation

You need X.Org and HAL.

# pacman -Sy xorg hal

See here and here

nTia89

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From: varese, italy

Registered: 2008-12-22

Posts: 1,230

Re: Need a hand with Arch installation

have you had success ???

Last edited by nTia89 (2009-09-10 18:54:35)

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Rockem

Member

Registered: 2009-09-08

Posts: 3

Re: Need a hand with Arch installation

yes,
I needed to install xorg and hal, and also activate hal before X
but I had problems with my soundcard and wireless so now I'm trynig slack