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AJones

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Registered: 2010-09-04

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Just installed and able to boot into Arch Linux 2010-05 AMD64

Hi there:

I reinstalled Arch Linux on my First HD.

1. What steps should I take to get a desktop?
2.  Should I upgrade to the latest kernel etc?
3. How do I get NVIDIA drivers?

I wil take a look at the wiki.

Thanks,
Alan

bsilvereagle

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Registered: 2011-03-29

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Re: Just installed and able to boot into Arch Linux 2010-05 AMD64

I wil take a look at the wiki.

I think you gave yourself the best advice there is.

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AJones

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Registered: 2010-09-04

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Re: Just installed and able to boot into Arch Linux 2010-05 AMD64

Hi there:

I just followed what was in the wiki and I am stumped.

I tried pacman -Syu and it downloaded a few files, and few servers must be outdated; It asked me for upgrading pacman to version 3.5 which I did.

Now when I use pacman I get this error with out solving which I cannot use pacman

Error pacman: /lib/lib.so.6: versioon 'GLIBC_2.14' not found (required by /lusr/lib/libalpm.so.6)

I cannot use pacman now, How do I resolve this? Shoudl I start all over gain with Archlinux 2011-05?

Thanks,
Alan

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Re: Just installed and able to boot into Arch Linux 2010-05 AMD64

Perhaps you can run...pacman-db-upgrade....to upgrade your data base.  Also update your mirrors.

The command above has no spaces .

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AJones

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Re: Just installed and able to boot into Arch Linux 2010-05 AMD64

Hi:

I did do pacman-db-upgrade the first time around. Are you saying it should be pacman-Syu, it does not work. I updated the mirror list. I googled about this error and find that it is a bug in the pacman-dev, I have enabled Testing repo as well. Is there a way to get the old pacman back. ? Any clues, I would like to get this working.

Thanks,
Alan

AJones

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Re: Just installed and able to boot into Arch Linux 2010-05 AMD64

I tried the IRC chat on irc.freenode.net from Debian, and I get a message stating your message will not be listed on #archlinux. Should I register or something?

Thanks,
alan

AJones

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Re: Just installed and able to boot into Arch Linux 2010-05 AMD64

Should I try wgetpaste </path/to/file>

nXqd

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Re: Just installed and able to boot into Arch Linux 2010-05 AMD64

same here, I've just installed the exactly version the thread owner use. And pacman doesn't work after pacman -Syu and pacman-db-upgrade. How can I get this fixed ?

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AJones

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Re: Just installed and able to boot into Arch Linux 2010-05 AMD64

Hi Get on irc.freenode.net #archlinux.

They want us to do

wget http://mirrors.kernel.org/archlinux/cor … pkg.tar.xz and untar it to /

change i686 to either x86_64 or amd64 for 64bit

I have not tried that yet.

Regards,
Alan

AJones

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Re: Just installed and able to boot into Arch Linux 2010-05 AMD64

The above thing works, upon doing wget,

do pacman -Sf glibc

then

pacman -Syu, it upgraded, now I have another problem, What should I put in my Grub on Debian for it boot? What verson of the kernel is the latest?

Thanks,
Alan

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Re: Just installed and able to boot into Arch Linux 2010-05 AMD64

AJones, please use the Edit functionality instead of replying consecutively.

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AJones

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Re: Just installed and able to boot into Arch Linux 2010-05 AMD64

Upon kernel upgrade update your GRUB as following kernel names

http://www.archlinux.org/news/changes-t … filenames/

I have to do this now

OK will do that starting now..

Where can I get KDE 3.5?

Thanks
AJ

Last edited by AJones (2011-08-11 13:49:02)

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Re: Just installed and able to boot into Arch Linux 2010-05 AMD64

Not in the Arch repos... Arch philosophy follows upstream decisions. Ie Gnome 3, no Gnome 2, and KDE 4 instead of supporting legacy KDE 3.x.

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