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drfindley

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Registered: 2003-10-30

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How Do I install Gnome?

I have just installed archlinux .5, but yet I don't understand how to get gnome up and running.  I have mozilla working, but nothing else. Can anyone help?

farphel

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From: New Hampshire - USA

Registered: 2003-09-18

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Re: How Do I install Gnome?

pacman -Syu gnome

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Xentac

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Re: How Do I install Gnome?

Actually... specifying 'u' means an upgrade and no matter what it doesn't read the rest of the arguments.

What you probably want is to get your system up to date 'pacman -Sy pacman', 'pacman -S coreutils', 'pacman -Syu'... then 'pacman -S gnome'.

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drfindley

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Registered: 2003-10-30

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Re: How Do I install Gnome?

I have started to get some gnome packages installed, but I don't know which ones to grab.  Will updating pacman/coreutils and doing a system update make it so when I do "pacman -S gnome" it will install all the gnome packages? because currently "pacman -S gnome" does nothing.

I was also wondering how do I configure my system to run gnome when I go to initlevel 5?

Thanks

kakabaratruskia

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From: Santiago, Chile

Registered: 2003-08-24

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Re: How Do I install Gnome?

yes, the pacman version you have does not support groups. When you update pacman, you'll be able to type pacman -S gnome and it'll download everything in gnome group for you.

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drfindley

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Re: How Do I install Gnome?

Well I am up and running in gnome . . so much to configure now, but running. Thanks so much