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I installed Arch, but didnt pick any other packages, other than the default ones, so im stuck with just a command line now when i boot up the system.
What can i do to install a desktop environment like LXDE or XFCE?
Thanks so much!
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Arch Wiki has this information, you should have looked there first. Read Begginer's guide. Install xorg and video driver, and after that install lxde/xfce.
Last edited by s3kt0r (2009-12-14 22:08:04)
box1: Arch (linux-3.17-rc5)
box2: Gentoo (linux-3.17-rc5)
wm: subtle
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Oh alright, thanks!
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When i try and install xorg it says
error : 'xorg' : not found in syncd db
and when i tryy and resync pacman it says
error failed to updatecore (no services configured for repository)
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My advice would be to start over with the begginers guide at hand, I had no idea of how to install Arch, and by following the guide step by step I now have a fully working Desktop Environment (with KDEmod, specific to arch, very cool).
If you follow this guide to the letter, you should be ok.
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Okay thanks, im reading it over now
but are the desktop manager , etc packages in the part where i do "select packages"?
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Okay thanks, im reading it over now
but are the desktop manager , etc packages in the part where i do "select packages"?
If you had indeed READ the guide, you would know the answer. ;)
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woww.
i dont even see any desktop environmemnts or anything in the package selector, other than things that dont make sense like rt2x00-rt1-fw
:l
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join the irc channel then
its the #archlinux on freenode
you can use weechat irc client for example (its in the repo)
for xfce you got to do
pacman -S xfce4 xfce4-goodies
you may want to install the 'menumaker' package too
pacman -Ss xfce would give you THE list.
you can see all informations here
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xfce
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Beginners'_Guide#Part_IV:_Installing_and_configuring_a_Desktop_Environment
Last edited by quarkup (2009-12-14 23:25:04)
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thank you so much!
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See if this helps. A very simple, n0bified guide I wrote by request. I always ask peple to refer to beginner's guide, as i have also mentioned at the starting of my guide.
Regards
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