Re: [LINUX_Newbies] Re: top five mistakes of newbies

Thanks Scott. I will give it a shot soon. First I want to install Fedora 14,
but Arch is on my list.

Roy

Using Kubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat, 64-bit
Location: Canada

On 15 October 2010 17:52, Scott <scottro@nyc.rr.com> wrote:

>
>
> On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 05:09:04PM -0400, Roy wrote:
>
> >
> > Right now I am only running Arch in a VM but I just cleaned out three 200
> GB
> > partitions and I will look for a place to install Arch and then I will
> look
> > into packer. How does it differ from pacman?
> >
>
> Syntax should be identical. I haven't had a chance to use Arch in
> awhile, so you might want to try their wiki--another reason I really
> like Arch is the high level of documentation, far better than some
> others.
>
> Now IF I remember right--you download it from AUR (don't think it's in
> standard repos.) Build it, which should be straightforward.
>
> After that, you can use it to search for packages, it will download them
> and build them for you---they're not typical Arch packages, they're
> usually tarballs, so it will run through a short build process, ask you
> if you want to edit the makefile (I usually just hit n as in no) and
> will then do the rest of the work.
>
> As I said, I haven't used Arch seriously in awhile--there may be
> something even better now, in the same way that packer is considered the
> replacement for yaurt, or whatever the previous thing that checked AUR
> was called.
>
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> Scott Robbins
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