Going Arch ! Need Help

[MetalheadGautham]

Don't do it. The thrill of installing stuff one-by-one is AWESOME.

And yeah, right now there is little difference between KDEmod and KDE in version 4.2. I suggest you try Vanilla KDE instead of KDEmod because the later often screws up when KDE is not sufficiently stable in its release.

To install KDE 4.2, do

sudo pacman -S kde-complete

and edit your mirrorlist (/etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist) and put the Norway mirror, something like blahblah.archlinux.no on top because its the fastest mirror I have seen.

And yeah, always keep a backup Window Manager. I recommend IceWM, because its lighter and more feature rich than FluxBox and all other *Boxes.

 

[a_k_s_h_a_y]

Right after Installation and First Boot, First install POWERPILL. Then rest all stuff.

pacman will download only from one FTP.
powerpill will download from multiple connections.

To install PowerPill use pacman ... do this

pacman -U *xyne.archlinux.ca/repos/any/powerpill-15.9-1-any.pkg.tar.gz

From then on don't use Pacman !! Always use PowerPill.
Like This !!

powerpill -Syu // to update system.
powerpill -S kde-complete // to install KDE.
powerpill -S something // to install something
powerpill -Sy // refresh database but no update

etc..

Just substitute powerpill instead of pacman !!!

 

[Liverpool_fan]

Installed Arch today and now loaded GNOME and just loving it...
Now going further...
And the Beginner's guide is AWESOME...Best Guide EVER...

Also now How do I enable basic multimedia? Which packages should I for?
And also I wish to install development tools? ie. gcc, g++, etc...(I can pacman/powerpill -S those but is there a group package for them)
[EDIT: ah..me==noob...they are already there in the install... ]

Also should i go for KDEmod or vanilla KDE for experiencing KDE4.2?

 

[Faun]

install
mplayer - it plays everything

and
gstreamer-bad, gstreamer-ugly, gstreamer-good, gstreamer-fugly (oops last one is not really there )

 

[shady_inc]

pacman -S codecs for the common codecs.Then just install any music/video players you want.They pull in the required codecs as dependencies.
Use pacman -Ss <package name OR description> to search for any stuff you need.

 

[Liverpool_fan]

^ Thanks.

How do I set GNOME such that I could mount other partitions in the Computer icon by double clicking them? It is not working currently.
I've already set hal and dbus, what next?

 

[kalpik]

If you're talking about NTFS drives, install ntfs-config.

 

[MetalheadGautham]

And better than mplayer is gnome-mplayer.

sudo pacman -S gnome-mplayer gecko-mediaplayer

the later is an AWESOME addon for firefox and other gecko browsers which replaces the fugly old mplayer-mozilla plugin. It opens ALL formats and has inbuilt emulation mode for Windows Media Player and Real Player plugins so ALL sites open with it. You can also SAVE STREAMS from the player window, which is great because of all the you-know-what reasons.

sudo pacman -S smplayer vlc

Installs an MPlayer version for Qt Lovers (native interface in KDE), and also VLC Media Player which is also Qt based. None of them have KDElibs depenencies however.

 

[Liverpool_fan]

If you're talking about NTFS drives, install ntfs-config.

No they are ext3 and ReiserFS partitions. Also there is another LVM drive...

 

[Faun]

^^just make their entry in fstab
and do a chown before to take the ownership of mountpoints
For that read this guide i wrote last year:
*t.webofgoo.com/2008/03/11/automount-partition-using-uuid-in-ubuntu/

And for Arch linux read this guide:
*t.webofgoo.com/2008/07/11/arch-linux-installation-from-ground-up/

 

[Liverpool_fan]

Now I have installed KDE4 but the Gnome Apps are looking very ugly...
How do I set a more tolerable theme for Gnome Apps in KDE4?

 

[shady_inc]

Now I have installed KDE4 but the Gnome Apps are looking very ugly...
How do I set a more tolerable theme for Gnome Apps in KDE4?

If using stock KDE:
pacman -S gtk-qt-engine
If using KDEmod:
pacman -S kdemod-extragear-gtk-qt-engine-svn
[hope you have enabled kdemod-extragear repos...]
After installation, log out and log back in.Check out Appearance Settings in KDE System Settings to see a new option that allows you to set themes to GTK apps.

BTW, has anyone got the Nepomuk search to work in KDE4.?

 

[Liverpool_fan]

^
Thanks.

 

[a_k_s_h_a_y]

HAL Will actually aut omount NTFS on my system !! No need to edit FSTAB. Actually.
Add hal to the daemons list in rc.conf

That new minor release of HAL is buggy. Revert back to previous version if you are already using HAL and NTFS is not mounted on boot.

*bugs.archlinux.org/task/12397

 

[Dark Star]

Download both X64 of 2009 and Chakra Live CD.. Tried Chakra and did someinstall stuff.. Loved Arch but it didn't install.. Got some error @ 83%....

Will install Arch after exams.. Shaman Package Manager is there in Arch ?

 

[hellknight]

me also thinking about installing Arch.. i downloaded the 64-bit image.. any precautions i should take.. i can partition on cmd line.. but tell me.. how to connect to BSNL broadband on it.. will sudo pppoeconf work??..

 

[Rahim]

Chakra hangs while installing

 

[Dark Star]

^^Yep.. It stuck at 81% and when it reach 83 it gave some error ! But it way to better it configured my system perfectly.. All audio video codecs install and the best part is QT4 designer is also available.. But no GIMP , Openoffice

 

[Liverpool_fan]

^
Use pacman to install that stuff?

 

[ThinkFree]

I installed Arch on /dev/sda3 but didn't installed the bootloader from arch installer
Added following entry in existing grub

title Arch
root (hd0,2)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz26
initrd /boot/kernel26.img

But when I boot using that, it says it can't load root device. What is wrong with installation?